[The significance of guided patient education on the value of metabolic control in a district center for diabetes mellitus]. / Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung einer gezielten Patientenaufklärung auf die Güte der Stoffwechselführung in einer Kreisstelle für Diabetes mellitus.

In 409 diabetics, in most cases with an insufficient attitude to problems of metabolism, the state of knowledge was examined ay means of an interrogation action. This was followed by an intensifying of the instruction by group instruction. On an average 9 months after this a clearly improved knowledge was stated. At the same time metabolism had improved in 50.3% of the patients and deteriorated only in 7.9%.