Impact of ‘Community based Diabetic patient education’ on glycaemic status, life style and self care practices among type 2 diabetes patients in an urban slum of Mumbai, India.

ABSTRACT

Demographic transition combined with urbanization and industrialization has resulted in drastic changes in lifestyles of all people but its harmful impact is more in developing countries because of their rapid pace of growth in last few decades. According to the recent World Health Organization report, India has around 32 million diabetic patients and this number is projected to increase to 79.4 million by the year 2030. Our Aim of the study was to assess the impact of community based DPE on glycaemic control, life style and self care practices among type 2 diabetic patients. This community based interventional study done among 272 type 2 diabetic patients who were selected from slum area. All patients were given Community diabetic patient education (DPE) over a period of one year. Following DPE the life style parameters and self care practices have improved which is statistically significant (p value <0.05). Both fasting and postprandial blood sugar level, blood pressure & BMI had been significantly improved (p value < 0.001).