Original Articles: 2016 Vol: 8 Issue: 8
Study of effectiveness of diabetic care (Type II) in Larestan-2015
Abstract
Considering the high prevalence of Type 2 diabetes and importance of the care quality to reduce its complications and mortality and costs resulting from it, the effectiveness of type 2 diabetic patients’ care in Larestan was studied in 2015. The present study is of cross-sectional analytical kind. The statistical universe studied includes all Type 2 diabetic patients of Larestan having an active file in the health center. The sample size in the group under care was estimated 247 people and in the group of non care was 108 .It means total sample of studied consists of 355 people. The present research was performed in three stages including (1) interviewers training and checklist completing (2) somatometrics and (3) blood sampling. After determining the answers of the test the above cases were analyzed by software SPSS and T-Test and descriptive statistic analysis method. In the present research the average and standard deviation related to the age of patients under the care were equal to 58.93±9.53 and those of the uncared patients were 59.95±9.52 . 237 individuals (66/8%) were females and 118 individuals (33/2%) were males. In this research 355 type 2 diabetic patients in Larestan were evaluated. 247 (69.6%) were the patients under care and the remainings (108 equal to 30.4%) were the patients uncared . 52/7% subjects resided in the cities and 47/3% were rurals. 58/3% subjects were illiterate and 28/7% of them had primary education and 7/9% had secondary education and 3% had high school education and only 2% were graduated .In terms of job, 66/2% of them were housekeepers , 12/4% had free job , 2% were employee , 13% were unemployed , 3/9% were retired and 2/5% were farmers and ranchers . 87% were married. Considering the present research the quality and effectiveness of care status related to the diabetic patients of Larestan is better than that of country 's patients but is far from ADA standards.