Effectiveness of the education program on diabetic patients' knowledge and practice regarding self-administration of insulin in Erbil City

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Aim of study: This study aims to assess the effectiveness of educational program on diabetic patients‟ knowledge and practice regarding self-administration of insulin.

Methods: Quantitative, quasi-experimental study was conducted in Leila Qasim Center for Diabetes Care in Erbil City in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 15th June 2014 to 15th October 2014.Non-probability (purposive sample) was used for selection of 50 diabetic patients.

Questionnaire and checklist were designed and divided into three parts; socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of diabetic patients, knowledge regarding insulin medication and thepractice of insulin self-administration.

Pilot study was conducted on 10 diabetic patients for obtaining the reliability of thestudy andit wasstatistically adequate)r = 0.885).

The content validity was determined through 15 experts and all 15 experts agreed the content of the questionnaire and checklist with some changes.The data were analyzed through the SPSS software V.20 application, descriptive data analysis was done through frequency, percentage and mean.Inferential data analysis was done byt- test correlated one sample in two occasions (paired), it was used to test the significant differences between two variables x (test) and y (retest).

Results: The study results show that the most of the study sample was between 18-31 years old, female, illiterate from urban area, and the highest percentage of the duration of disease was between 1-15 years and 1-10 years of the duration of the insulin management.

The mean scores of the knowledge regarding insulin medication and insulin self-administration practice after the education program were increased in comparing between pre-test and post-test (p-value of t-test was very highly significant <0.001) which is related to the effectiveness of the education program.

Recommendations: The study recommends that preparing educational programs to be implemented for all diabetic patients who have insulin medication and their caregivers.