Effectiveness of self-management promotion educational program among diabetic patients based on health belief model
نویسندگان
1 Departments of Health Education and Promotion
2 Departments of Epidemiology, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
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4 Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj
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چکیده
Introduction: Diabetes is a chronic disease; it can cause serious complications. Diabetesself-management is essential for prevention of disease complications. This study wasconducted to evaluate self-management promotion educational program interventionefficiency among diabetic patients in Iran and health belief model (HBM) was applied as atheoretical framework. Materials and Methods: Overall, 120 Type 2 diabetic patients referredto rural health centers in Gachsaran, Iran participated in this study as randomly divided intointervention and control group. This was a longitudinal randomized pre- and post-test seriescontrol group design panel study to implement a behavior modification based intervention topromotion self-management among diabetic patients. Cross-tabulation and t-test by usingSPSS statistical package, version 16 was used for the statistical analysis. Results: Mean agewas 55.07 years (SD = 9.94, range: 30-70). Our result shows significant improvements inaverage response for susceptibility, severity, benefit and self-management among interventiongroup. Additionally, after intervention, average response of the barrier to self-management wasdecreased among intervention group. Conclusion: Our result showed education programbased on HBM was improve of self-management and seems implementing these programscan be effective in the and prevention of diabetes complications.
