Investigation of diabetes nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice in outpatients with type 2 diabetes / 中华健康管理学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To conduct an investigation on diabetes nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice in outpatients with type 2 diabetes, understand the nutritional knowledge and dietary behaviors in patients with type 2 diabetes to guide individualized nutrition education. Methods The diabetes nutrition Knowledge, Attitude and Practice(KAP) questionnairewas designed based onChinese dietary guidelines (2007)andChinese diabetes medical nutrition therapy guidelines (2013). Data of out-patients with type 2 diabetes from January to March 2015 were collected. The method of investigation was face-to-face interview. Results Totally 915 patients were enrolled into this survey(male 495 and female 420). The mean BMI was (27.23 ± 3.18)kg/m2, glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HBA1c) was (8.03 ± 2.17)%. Among the questions on knowledge, only on 4 questions the rate of awareness was over 80%, and there was a misunderstanding on diet, only 54.10%of diabetes patients believed that diabetes diet should be balanced and reasonable, rather than just limiting staple food and meat. Patients generally could realize the importance of diet for diabetes treatment. For questions on practice, the rate of reaching the standard generally was not over 80%. The rate of correct answers was not significantly different among different age groups, gender, and durations. There was a linear correlation between the rate of correct answers and glycosylated hemoglobin (P=0.043), the correlation coefficient was-0.258. The higher the rate of correct answers, the lower the level of glycosylated hemoglobin. Conclusion Outpatients with type 2 diabetes had good awareness level about diabetic nutritional knowledge and attitude but the awareness level of balanced diet needs to improve, the awareness rate on behavior was relatively low.