ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2025
Self-care knowledge and contributing factors among ambulatory diabetes mellitus patients in North-Central, Ethiopia: a facility-based cross-sectional study.
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Introduction: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a serious, chronic medical condition. It requires ongoing medical follow-up and patient self-management. However, poor self-management and diabetes complications are the result of inadequate diabetes self-care knowledge. Hence, this study aimed to investigate diabetes self-care knowledge and associated factors among diabetes patients in North-Central, Ethiopia. Methods: a facility-based cross-sectional study design was employed among 355 diabetes patients at North-Central, Ethiopia, public and private health facilities from March 22 Results: among the total participants, 54% had good knowledge about diabetes self-care. Variables like, educational level diploma and above (AOR: 3.407, 95% CI: 1.337-8.684), monthly income of 2000 birr and above (AOR: 4.384, 95% CI: 1.548-12.411), respondents with regular follow-up (AOR: 8.910, 95% CI: 2.903-17.349), and those who have ever attended diabetes health education (AOR: 5.554, 95% CI: 1.820-16.953) were significantly associated with having good diabetes self-care knowledge. Conclusion: more than half of the participants have good knowledge of diabetes self-care. As per our results, educational level, monthly income, regular follow-up, and having experience in diabetes-related health education were independent determinants of having good knowledge about diabetes self-care.
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