ABSTRACT

Introduction: Diabetes is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by an increase in blood sugar level due to inability of the body to either produce insulin or to maintain its level in the blood. A descriptive study was conducted to assess the awareness regarding hypoglycaemia among diabetic patients attending visiting to primary health centre. Objectives: The objectives were to assess the awareness regarding hypoglycaemia among diabetic patients and to find out the association of findings with selected demographic variables. Material and Methods: TheDescriptive design was adopted for this study. the main study was carried out on 100 diabetic patients. Non-probability sampling technique in that Purposive sampling method was used to selected samples for diabetic patients visiting to primary health centre. Pilot study and was carried out in another primary health centre of same city of the main study population among the ten-percentage population of the final study samples size. Study tool content validity was obtained by the experts from the nursing field. reliability of the tool was obtained through the test-retest method. Research study conduction permission was obtained from the primary health centre officer and participant before collection of the data.Data analysis was done mainly using descriptive statistics. Results- Study results revels that 22% of the subjects had a poor awareness while 78% of them had good awareness regarding Hypoglycaemia. Also 54% of participants had poor awareness while 46% of them had good awareness regarding management of hypoglycaemia and 18% of the total sample had poor awareness and 82% of them had good awareness regarding prevention of hypoglycaemia. Conclusion- Findings of the study revel that, there is a better half of general population who need awareness regarding diabetes and ways to prevent and manage this disease specially in the rural community areas. Keywords- Assess, Awareness, Hypoglycaemia, Diabetes Clients, Primary Health Centre
Publication date: 25/01/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.1.2021