Awareness and compliance with therapeutic strategies in glycaemic control among Type II diabetic patients at General Specialist Hospital, Katsina, North-Western Nigeria

Abstract

Background: It has been shown that despite effective methods of therapeutic strategies on glycaemic control about 50% of diabetic  patients fail to achieve satisfactory glycemic control due to poor compliance, which leads to accelerated development of complications and increased mortality. Type II diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disease characterized by elevated level of glucose  (hyperglycemia) resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both.

Aim: The study aimed at identifying the awareness and compliance level to therapeutic strategies among type II diabetic mellitus  patients at General Hospital Katsina.

Methods: A cross -sectional study design was employed and a standardized instrument based on  Centre for Disease Prevention and Control was employed, and fifty (50) diabetic patients were purposively recruited for the study. The  obtained data was analyzed using simple descriptive statistics and presented in frequency and percentages.

Results: The results showed  that most diabetic patients were female 29(58%) and fall within the age range of 41-50 years. The results also showed that most patients  70% are aware of therapeutic strategies in glyacemic control,but with moderate compliance to therapeutic strategies.

Conclusion: It  concludes that there is high level of patients awareness on the therapeutic strategies in glycaemic control, but with poor compliance rate.  Therefore, it is recommended that government should developed policies on the compliance of diabetic patient to therapeutic  regimen, and healthcare professionals should create sensitization and campaign on the compliance rate on strategies in glycaemic  control.