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Adherence to foot self-care in diabetes mellitus patients
Dinah Sá Rezende Neta1, Ana Roberta Vilarouca da Silva2, Grazielle Roberta Freitas da Silva1
1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brasil.
Objective:
To analyze the self-care of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Family Health Strategy in Teresina-PI.
Method:
Search cross selected by simple random sampling, 331 people with diabetes mellitus. Data collection took place from August to December 2012 with the use of Self-Care Activities Questionnaire with Diabetes and structured instrument for recording information socioeconomic and guidance received by the professional nurse.
Results:
The data revealed that patients have poor adherence to blood glucose monitoring, the physical exercise and foot care, but with good adherence to the medication. Only 38.7% of the sample examined the feet of fi ve to seven days a week. Statistically significant association between self-care activities with their feet and orientations of nurses (p < 0,05).
Conclusion:
That there is need to raise awareness with regard to the development of skills for self-care.
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