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Abstract
Diabetes is a significant public health problem in Egypt. It is a major and growing health problem affecting more than 171 million people worldwide and the number is expected to rise to 366 million by 2030. Type 2 DM is a metabolic disease that can be prevented through lifestyle modification, diet control, and control of overweight and obesity. Education of the populace is still key to the control of this emerging epidemic. Novel drugs are being developed, yet no cure is available in sight for the disease, despite new insight into the pathophysiology of the disease. Management should be tailored to improve the quality of life of individuals with type 2 DM. Diabetes education is the cornerstone of diabetes care. Improved training of the primary health care providers and patients with diabetes is therefore beneficial. Several studies of family physicians identified the need for improvement in their practices for treating and educating diabetics. The aim of work of the current study was to assess K.A.P among studied population using structured questionnaire and evaluation of different factors affecting K.A.P among studied population. To elucidate this aim 400 diabetic patients with type II DM were included in the current study. Mean age of the studied sample is 52.71years, 71.2%are females, 52.5 % are immediate education, 50.2% are housewives, 51.8% are urban residence and 84.8% are married. In the present study 63.8% of the studied sample have positive family history of diabetes. Sixty-eight percent of the studied sample received oral hypoglycemic drugs for treatment of diabetes. In the current study the most frequent correct knowledge recorded among studied sample was obtained for duration of diabetic medications intake (99.8%) , importance of exercise for diabetic patient (98%) , knowledge about systematic effect of diabetes (94.2%) and measures taken in case of hypoglycemia (89.8%). In the current study, the most frequent positive attitude was obtained for periodic consulting doctor for diabetic treatm. In this study, the highest frequency of correct practice was compliance to take drugs during last week (65.8%), eating vegetables from 2-3 times per week (49.2%) In the current study, the majority of the participants were poor knowledge 258 (64.5%), poor attitude312 (78%) and poor practice197 (49.2%). There is statistically significant association between poor knowledge and the following risk factors ; young age, females, illiterate, house wives and manual workers, rural residence, and negative family history. There is statistically significant association between poor attitude and the following risk factors; young age, illiterate and primary, preparatory education, house wives and manual workers. There is statistically significant association between poor practice and the following risk factors; female, housewives, rural residence & widow and obese. There is statistically significant weak positive correlation between knowledge, attitude and practice.