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Public knowledge, attitudes and practices toward diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study from Jordan
AIMS: To assess the knowledge and practices toward diabetes in the Jordanian community. METHODS: This study was conducted as a public based cross-sectional study in different cities in Jordan. A previously published validated questionnaire about knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) toward diabe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30925187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214479 |
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author | Alsous, Mervat Abdel Jalil, Mariam Odeh, Mohanad Al Kurdi, Rasha Alnan, Murhaf |
author_facet | Alsous, Mervat Abdel Jalil, Mariam Odeh, Mohanad Al Kurdi, Rasha Alnan, Murhaf |
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description | AIMS: To assess the knowledge and practices toward diabetes in the Jordanian community. METHODS: This study was conducted as a public based cross-sectional study in different cities in Jordan. A previously published validated questionnaire about knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) toward diabetes mellitus (DM) was translated from the Arabic version and used in this study with very minor modification to be suitable for this study of the Jordanian population. RESULTS: A total of 1,702 participants were recruited in the present study. About half of the participants (53.3%) had good knowledge scores. The respondents’ knowledge scores were significantly correlated with attitudes (p < 0.001). The education level (university or higher) and education related to a field were predictors for good knowledge and positive attitudes. About 46.3% of participants had positive attitudes toward the disease. As for practices, 37.7% of participants did not engage in regular exercise while more than half of the study subjects had never checked their blood glucose level on an annual basis. The factors influencing the practice of checking blood glucose level have been investigated. CONCLUSION: This study has highlighted the need for more educational interventions to address negative attitudes and promote healthy lifestyle practices and regular health checks especially in certain subgroups of patients, such as those not having a degree related to the medical field and not having a first-degree relative with DM. |
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spelling | pubmed-64406282019-04-12 Public knowledge, attitudes and practices toward diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study from Jordan Alsous, Mervat Abdel Jalil, Mariam Odeh, Mohanad Al Kurdi, Rasha Alnan, Murhaf PLoS One Research Article AIMS: To assess the knowledge and practices toward diabetes in the Jordanian community. METHODS: This study was conducted as a public based cross-sectional study in different cities in Jordan. A previously published validated questionnaire about knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) toward diabetes mellitus (DM) was translated from the Arabic version and used in this study with very minor modification to be suitable for this study of the Jordanian population. RESULTS: A total of 1,702 participants were recruited in the present study. About half of the participants (53.3%) had good knowledge scores. The respondents’ knowledge scores were significantly correlated with attitudes (p < 0.001). The education level (university or higher) and education related to a field were predictors for good knowledge and positive attitudes. About 46.3% of participants had positive attitudes toward the disease. As for practices, 37.7% of participants did not engage in regular exercise while more than half of the study subjects had never checked their blood glucose level on an annual basis. The factors influencing the practice of checking blood glucose level have been investigated. CONCLUSION: This study has highlighted the need for more educational interventions to address negative attitudes and promote healthy lifestyle practices and regular health checks especially in certain subgroups of patients, such as those not having a degree related to the medical field and not having a first-degree relative with DM. Public Library of Science 2019-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6440628/ /pubmed/30925187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214479 Text en © 2019 Alsous et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Alsous, Mervat Abdel Jalil, Mariam Odeh, Mohanad Al Kurdi, Rasha Alnan, Murhaf Public knowledge, attitudes and practices toward diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title | Public knowledge, attitudes and practices toward diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_full | Public knowledge, attitudes and practices toward diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_fullStr | Public knowledge, attitudes and practices toward diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_full_unstemmed | Public knowledge, attitudes and practices toward diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_short | Public knowledge, attitudes and practices toward diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_sort | public knowledge, attitudes and practices toward diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study from jordan |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30925187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214479 |
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