Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Educating patients about diabetes plays a pivotal role in encouraging people to changing lifestyle and supporting them to improve the quality of life, and actively responsibile for self control of their condition.

Objective: To evaluate self management after receiving diabetes education for newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes in Mongolia.

Methods: The cross-sectional survey was conducted from May and October 2011. At Diabetes centers and Level II hospitals in Ulaanbaatar. 150 participants with type 2 diabetes was referred within, from May to August as newly diagnos and included only the ones who met inclusion criteria and agreed with informed consent. Each patient’s knowledge and psychosocial status were assessed be the internationally accepted questionnaire and collected anthropometric and metabolic indicators according to the protocol. Statistical analysis was performed with the SPSS16 software.

Results: The study involved newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes 23–64 years were men 43,6% (65),women 56,7% (85). Educated groups participants attended a structured education programme within 0–2 weeks of diagnosis. The diabetes knowledge anthropometric and metabolic indicators were indifferent between groups educated and without diabetes education. However psychosocial status which includes satisfaction of health care service, anxiety of their disease depression related blood glucose reactions eating family and regular self management was significantly different between educated and without education groups.

Conclusion: Psychosocial status which includes satisfaction of health care service, anxiety of their disease, depression related blood glucose reactions eating family and regular self management were significantly different between both groups.

Keywords: Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, patient’s self management education