Awareness of foot care among patients with diabetes attending a tertiary care hospital.

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dc.contributor.authorKishore, Shyam
dc.contributor.authorUpadhyay, Ashish Datt
dc.contributor.authorJyotsna, V.P.
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-29T04:32:20Z
dc.date.available2016-12-29T04:32:20Z
dc.date.issued2015-05
dc.description.abstractBackground. The prevalence of diabetes in India is rising. It is also occurring at a younger age. Ulcers on the foot in patients with diabetes are a common cause of amputations and are largely preventable. We assessed the awareness of foot care among patients with diabetes attending a tertiary care hospital in northern India and whether this varied with the level of healthcare availed, i.e. primary, secondary or tertiary. Methods. A scored questionnaire was designed based on foot care practices advised by the American Diabetes Association as part of the national diabetes education programme. It was administered to 400 patients and a total foot care score was calculated and correlated with various variables. Results. Only 50 of 400 patients (12.5%) had received previous foot care advice from healthcare professionals, and 193 (48.2%), 28 (7%) and 179 (44.8 %) patients were being taken care of by primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare systems, respectively. Almost one-quarter of patients were uneducated. The mean foot care score in all three groups was 5 of a maximum of 14, which was poor. Conclusion. The awareness of foot care among people with diabetes is low among those attending all levels of healthcare: primary, secondary and tertiary. It is necessary to educate people about foot care, lack of which will lead to a huge financial and health burden due to preventable complications of diabetes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKishore Shyam, Upadhyay Ashish Datt, Jyotsna V.P. Awareness of foot care among patients with diabetes attending a tertiary care hospital. National Medical Journal of India. 2015 May-Jun; 28(3): 122-125.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0970-258X
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/180662
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dc.source.urihttps://archive.nmji.in/archives/Volume-28/Issue-3/Original-Article-II.pdfen_US
dc.titleAwareness of foot care among patients with diabetes attending a tertiary care hospital.en_US
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