| Título: | Self-monitoring of blood glucose among type-2 diabetes patients in Malaysia |
| Autores: |
Hasniza Zaman Huri Ong Chin Wen Rokiah Pendek |
| Fecha: | 2010-01-26 |
| Publicador: | Asian biomedicine: research reviews and news |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: | Peer-reviewed Article |
| Tema: | No aplica |
| Descripción: | p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: ";Microsoft Sans Serif";,";sans-serif";; color: #003300;"Background: Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has become a more common practice among type-2 diabetes patients, but there is limited information available regarding the patients’ practice and knowledge of SMBG./span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: ";Microsoft Sans Serif";,";sans-serif";; color: #003300;"Objective: To assess patients’ practice in terms of timing, frequency, performance and utilization of blood glucose value from SMBG as well as the relationship between patients’ SMBG knowledge and demographic characteristics./span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: ";Microsoft Sans Serif";,";sans-serif";; color: #003300;"Method: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 285 outpatients at the University Malaya Medical Centre of Malaysia from November 2006 to February 2007./span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: ";Microsoft Sans Serif";,";sans-serif";; color: #003300;"Results: Education level and ethnics were significantly associated with reading of the user manual. Age had no significant influence in patients’ SMBG knowledge./span/p span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: ";Microsoft Sans Serif";,";sans-serif";; mso-fareast-font-family: ";Times New Roman";; color: #003300; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: TH;"Conclusion: More education programs pertaining to SMBG should be carried out, especially for patients with low education./span |
| Idioma: | No aplica |