Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: This study aimed to determine the diabetes care profile and diabetes management in individuals with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: The population of the cross-sectional study consisted of individuals with Type 2 diabetes who received treatment in the internal medicine services of Public Hospitals in a province, and 377 individuals who met the inclusion criteria constituted the sample. Data was obtained using the Information Form, the Summary of Diabetes Self Care Activities Questionnaire (SDSCA) and the Diabetes Care Profile Scale.

Results: The mean age of the participants was 60.7±9.7 years, 65.3% were female, the duration of diabetes was 10.71±7.0 years, the HbA1c level was 7.2±1.4, the most common type of diabetes treatment was nutrition and oral antidiabetic medication, and 7.2% developed diabetes-related complications. Among the subscales of the diabetes care profile scale, control problems (4.87±1.14), which is one of the factors that impede diabetes control, and long-term results (4.41±1.07), which is one of the factors that improve diabetes control, received the highest scores. Control problems was higher in women who were illiterate, living with their parents, using nutrition + oral antidiabetic medication + insulin and did not receive training on diabetes (P<0.05). The long-term care benefits sub-scale was higher in smokers, those who take nutrition + oral antidiabetic medication + insulin therapy, and those with a family history of diabetes. An inverse correlation was found between diabetes self-care activities and the factors that impede diabetes management difficult except for medical barriers while a positive correlation was found between diabetes self-care activities and the factors promoting diabetes management except for long-term care benefits and blood glucose monitoring (P<0.05).

Conclusion: It was seen that factors impeding and promoting diabetes management differed in terms of sociodemographic and diabetes-related characteristics of individuals with diabetes, and a significant relationship was determined between diabetes care profile and diabetes self-care activities.

Keywords: Diabetes Care Profile; Type 2 Diabetes; Diabetes Self-Care Activities; Diabetes Management.