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[Impact of an educational institutional program in the control of the diabetic patient]
Miguel Angel Mendoza-Romo1, José Fernando Velasco-Chávez, Rafael Natividad Nieva de Jesús
1Coordinación de Planeación y Enlace Institucion, Unidad de Medicina Familiar 45, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México. miguel.mendozaro@imss.gob.mx.
Objective:
to assess the impact of an educational institutional program in the control of type 2 diabetic patient.
Methods:
intervention educational study, with quasi-experimental and self-controlled subjects. A convenience non-probabilistic sample was used including 151 patients from the program for the integral care of diabetic patients. Demographic variables: gender, age, type of insurance, somatometric and metabolic profile. The assistance to a one-year length, educational program was necessary. Descriptive and inferential parametric statistics were used.
Results:
106 women and 45 men, with age range between 15 and 87 years, and with an average of 57.22 ± 11.47, were studied. A significant decrease in body mass index, waist circumference, venous glucose fasting and post-prandial values, cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, triglycerides and glycosylated hemoglobin (t Student semi-detached, p < 0.05) was observed. There were no changes in diastolic blood pressure (p = 0.334).
Conclusions:
one year afterwards, the strategy based on education for the control of the diabetic patient shown a favorable pattern in most of somatometric and metabolic parameters. We suggest to extend this study over a longer period to determine if the effects persist over time.
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