Title: health education on the impact of diabetes mellitus ABSTRACT Objectives: To explore the influence of health education for diabetic patients, help diabetic patients to control blood glucose level, reduce or postpone the incidence of complications, improve the survival quality and satisfaction of the patients. Methods: Intensive health education was applied to 106 cases with diabetes, including momentarily education in hospital and telephone follow-up, home visiting, questionnaire survey and regular reexamination after discharge, to investigate the treatment compliance and controlling situation of blood glucose and lipid of the patients. Results: After half a year, compare with before health education, the mastery of diabetes knowledge, reasonable diet, exercise, blood glucose monitoring, weight control, temperance, smoking cessation and foot care of the patients were improved significantly(P<0.01). The blood glucose and lipid were also improved significantly(P<0.05). Conclusion: Effective health education for diabetic patients through making full use of nursing resources can improve treatment compliance, control relative biochemical index more ideally, and improve survival quality.
KEY WORDS: diabetes; health education TYPE OF THESIS: Theoretical research
