Abstract: Diabetes is a growing health problem globally and particularly in Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately DM considered to be one of the most common cause for serious complications (either acute or chronic) that affecting a lot of organs all over the body. Public awareness and education about diabetes and its complications is the cornerstone in prevent progression of the disease and developing of complications. SO, considering this issue we conducted this study to asses school teachers knowledge and their attitude toward DM complications in Tabuk city while no similar study had been done in our region.
Methods: cross sectional study using structured self-administered questionnaire (containing 17 questions) distributed in random way among teachers at different schools in Tabuk city containing socio-demographics, attitude and knowledge toward DM complications. Anonymity of respondents, consent form, and other ethical issues were considered. The data gatherers were available to answer any questions. The target population size was 500, based on 50% prevalence and 95% confidence interval. The data collected from these questionnaires was entered in Microsoft Excel and the statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 21. Frequency tables and chi square test analysis was done.
Results: A total of 500 respondents were interviewed, 250 (50%) were male . only around 20 of them are not in 20-40 years age group and most of them are married and had bachelor degree. Hopefully 86 % of them believe that DM has serious complications as same as almost 377 ( 75% ) of them follow malty ways together ( medications , regular F/U, diet and life style modifications,..) to minimizing DM complications. Surprisingly, only 11% of them have no DM in their relatives. More than 50% are taking DM information's mainly from health providers and social medias. Half of our respondents think that there are many social difficulty among diabetic patients in their life and more than 450 out of 500 participants (93%) they complain of shortage of educational project towards DM complications . the level of agreement from our respondents Regarding the retinopathy, cardiovascular, nephropathy and peripheral neuropathy was (89.6%, 75.2%, 75.4%, 85% ) respectively. 36 teachers (7.2%) don’t believe that DM has role in foot amputation, approximately 14% and 18 % of total sample size don’t know about diabetes effect on sexual activity and blood pressure .
Conclusion: The participants have somehow adequate knowledge of DM complications. But they are still in need effective health promotion strategies for the educational institutions and health program and camps should be conducted to make aware of community about the DM complications and how to try to minimize it .
Keywords: DM complications, health problem.
Title: Knowledge and Attitude of School Teachers toward DM Complications in Tabuk City
Author: Abdulateef Elbadawi,Qasem Abdu Mahzari, Mohammed Saeed Alshahrani, Abdulwahab Hussain Hadi Alawaji, Hussain Ali Khubrani, Jamal Ali Albalawi
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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