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Effectiveness of Two Different Methods of Health Education on Diabetic Patients' Knowledge about their Disease in the Urban Primary Health Care Units in Ismailia City

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Background:Diabetes education has been considered as an important part of the clinical management of diabetic patients. A large body of literature suggests that patient education improves diabetes knowledge of diabetic patients. Aim of this study was to identify the effectiveness of power point and the small group discussion health education methods on diabetic patients' knowledge about their disease. Patients and Methods: This intervention study was conducted on 170 diabetic patients attending El-Salam PHC unit who were randomly allocated in the two intervention groups. After health education programs, data were collected by using a diabetic patients' questionnaire before and after the health education programs for each group of the study to evaluate the effect of each method on participants' knowledge. Results: The results showed a significant difference between participants' knowledge of the two groups from 4.64 + 2.627 to9.75 + 2.203 in the PPT group and from 4.68 + 2.601 to11.88 + 2.456 in the small group discussion group. Conclusion: all participants' knowledge showed an improvement after the two methods especially in the small group discussion method showed marked improvement in all domains of participants' knowledge about their disease.    

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10.21608/scumj.2011.57483

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Diabetic education, PPT, small group discussion

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Sobhy

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Sobhy

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Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt

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Youssef

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Malak

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Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt

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Hamdy

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Sleem

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Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt

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Mayada

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Ghweeba

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Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt

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14

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2011-03-01

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2019-11-07

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2011-03-01

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61

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68

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1110-6999

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2090-2581

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SCUMJ_Volume 14_Issue 1_Pages 61-68.pdf

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Suez Canal University Medical Journal

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Effectiveness of Two Different Methods of Health Education on Diabetic Patients' Knowledge about their Disease in the Urban Primary Health Care Units in Ismailia City

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22 Jan 2023