An Empirical Study on Assessment of Knowledge on Diabetes Mellitus, Medication Usage and Complications for Type 2 Diabetic Patients at Kafue General Hospital, Zambia

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dc.contributor.authorRamasamy, Sakthivel
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-24T09:40:33Z
dc.date.available2025-07-24T09:40:33Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe research articles is to measure the knowledge on Diabetes, medication usage and its complications for type 2 diabetic patients at the Kafue General Hospital. 50 patients with Diabetes mellitus type 2 were taken in this research. The paper was used by Random sampling method. A cross-sectional and descriptive study as taken on the diabetic type 2 patients. 50 questionnaires were administered to the diabetic type 2 patients to assess their knowledge on Diabetes type 2, its medication usage and complications. Data was entered and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.0. The level of knowledge of the patients’ were asked through the questions about on symptoms of hypoglycemia, type of medication taken and when to take their medication in regards to food as well as complications of type 2 Diabetes mellitus. Knowledge about hypoglycemia was considered to be adequate if the patient could correctly identify eating sugary foods as an action to take when the patient’s blood sugar level had gone low. Knowledge in terms of gender, more females 26 (58%) than males 24 (48%) contributed to the study. The knowledge about diabetes was higher in patients with tertiary qualification, those with positive family history of diabetes, those with long length of diagnosis and those with type 2 diabetic complications. The present study has shown that type 2 Diabetic patient’s diabetic patients in the area under study had a poor level of knowledge about complications, management of hypoglycemia, consumption of alcohol in relation to medication and the regular checkup of blood sugar.
dc.identifier.issn1869-9391
dc.identifier.urihttps://ds.dmiseu.org/handle/123456789/60
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherGIS SCIENCE JOURNAL
dc.subjectBlood sugar
dc.subjectDiabetes
dc.subjectMedication
dc.subjectPatients.
dc.titleAn Empirical Study on Assessment of Knowledge on Diabetes Mellitus, Medication Usage and Complications for Type 2 Diabetic Patients at Kafue General Hospital, Zambia
dc.typeArticle

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