ABSTRACT
Background: Diabetes Mellitus [DM] is a developing worldwide wellbeing concern. In 2000, diabetes affected an expected 171 million individual's world-wide; moreover, by 2011 this had expanded to more than 366 million and numbers are relied upon to surpass 552 million by 2030. Objective: The present study aimed at increasing the awareness and prevents the complications of diabetes mellites type 1 in children
Methodology: The current study was a cross-sectional community-based study of a qualitative and quantitative approach. Our study enrolled 80 candidates, from both gender. Participants were subjected to controlled self-administered close-ended study questionnaire all through the period between July to August 2018; and one month for data analysis. Our current data were taken from Al-jouf population in Saudi Arabia
Results: [58; 72.5%] of the participants were having children with diabetes; where only 22; [27%] of them were not having children with diabetes. Moreover, 60; 75% were answered that they have only one child with diabetes, while [14; 17.5%] answered that they have two children and the lowest rate was for the third group who answered that they have more than three children [6; 7.5%]. Furthermore, the age ranges of the diabetic children were [1-5 years old] with proportions of [14; 17.5%], [6-10 years old] with [28; 35%], and the highest range was [11+ years old] with [38; 47.5%]
Conclusion and Recommendation: the current study sheds light on a global and nationwide health problem that affects children in the first stage of life which is diabetes type1. It has a high rate in urban communities. The findings of the present study highlighted the need of raising and improving the awareness through educational programs about management of self-care to prevent and/or reduce the increasing numbers of children patients with DM1