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The Effect of Peers Support on Fear of Hypoglycemia in Iranian Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinical Trial Study

BACKGROUND: Fear of hypoglycemia is a medical emergency which leads to disrupt individuals' normal lives. Peers support is a hopeful approach to improve diabetes self-care behaviors. This study was conducted to assess the effect of peers support on the fear of hypoglycemia in patients with type...

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Autores principales: Dehghankar, Leila, Namdar, Peyman, Yekefallah, Leili, Hosseini, Narges, Moradi, Mahnaz
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34036065
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_277_19
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author Dehghankar, Leila
Namdar, Peyman
Yekefallah, Leili
Hosseini, Narges
Moradi, Mahnaz
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Namdar, Peyman
Yekefallah, Leili
Hosseini, Narges
Moradi, Mahnaz
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description BACKGROUND: Fear of hypoglycemia is a medical emergency which leads to disrupt individuals' normal lives. Peers support is a hopeful approach to improve diabetes self-care behaviors. This study was conducted to assess the effect of peers support on the fear of hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This randomized clinical trial study was performed among 60 patients with type 1 diabetes in Qazvin city from September 2019 to October 2020. Patients were assigned to control and intervention groups using a random method. The data collection tools included demographic characteristics and a standard questionnaire for Hypoglycemia Fear Survey (HFS). Patients in the intervention group were trained by skilled peers for 2 months, but those of the control group only received routine hospital training. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 16 and paired and independent t-test. RESULTS: The scores of the fear of hypoglycemia in diabetic patients in the two groups had no significant statistical difference before intervention (t(53) = 0.93, p = 0.94). But after the intervention, the independent t-test showed that there was a significant difference between the scores of the fear of hypoglycemia in both groups (t(53) = -2.13, p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: Considering the results of the current study, peer support for diabetic patients is an effective way to reduce the fear of hypoglycemia. Therefore, it is recommended using this training method to train diabetic patients.
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spelling pubmed-81328562021-05-24 The Effect of Peers Support on Fear of Hypoglycemia in Iranian Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinical Trial Study Dehghankar, Leila Namdar, Peyman Yekefallah, Leili Hosseini, Narges Moradi, Mahnaz Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Fear of hypoglycemia is a medical emergency which leads to disrupt individuals' normal lives. Peers support is a hopeful approach to improve diabetes self-care behaviors. This study was conducted to assess the effect of peers support on the fear of hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This randomized clinical trial study was performed among 60 patients with type 1 diabetes in Qazvin city from September 2019 to October 2020. Patients were assigned to control and intervention groups using a random method. The data collection tools included demographic characteristics and a standard questionnaire for Hypoglycemia Fear Survey (HFS). Patients in the intervention group were trained by skilled peers for 2 months, but those of the control group only received routine hospital training. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 16 and paired and independent t-test. RESULTS: The scores of the fear of hypoglycemia in diabetic patients in the two groups had no significant statistical difference before intervention (t(53) = 0.93, p = 0.94). But after the intervention, the independent t-test showed that there was a significant difference between the scores of the fear of hypoglycemia in both groups (t(53) = -2.13, p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: Considering the results of the current study, peer support for diabetic patients is an effective way to reduce the fear of hypoglycemia. Therefore, it is recommended using this training method to train diabetic patients. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8132856/ /pubmed/34036065 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_277_19 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Dehghankar, Leila
Namdar, Peyman
Yekefallah, Leili
Hosseini, Narges
Moradi, Mahnaz
The Effect of Peers Support on Fear of Hypoglycemia in Iranian Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinical Trial Study
title The Effect of Peers Support on Fear of Hypoglycemia in Iranian Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinical Trial Study
title_full The Effect of Peers Support on Fear of Hypoglycemia in Iranian Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinical Trial Study
title_fullStr The Effect of Peers Support on Fear of Hypoglycemia in Iranian Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinical Trial Study
title_full_unstemmed The Effect of Peers Support on Fear of Hypoglycemia in Iranian Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinical Trial Study
title_short The Effect of Peers Support on Fear of Hypoglycemia in Iranian Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinical Trial Study
title_sort effect of peers support on fear of hypoglycemia in iranian patients with type 1 diabetes: a clinical trial study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34036065
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_277_19
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