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Evaluation of the Relationship Among Foot Wound Risk, Foot Self-care Behaviors, and Illness Acceptance in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Selma Şahin; Dilek Cingil is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Aims: Due to insufficient data in primary care, this study was designed to assess the influence of patient's foot self-care behaviors and illness acceptance on the risk of developing diabetic foot ulcers (dfu) in adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (dm). ## Methods: This is a descriptive study with a clinical assessment element. data were collected using a number of validated psychometric questionnaires that assess the participant's foot self care behavior, acceptance of illness, symptoms and neuropathy. the study included 246 patients diagnosed with type 2 dm attending a designated family health center in konya, turkey. ## Results: In the present study, there was a significant difference between dfsbs scores and gender and whether the patients resided in urban or rural areas (p < 0.05). a significant difference between ais score and gender, educational status, social security, place of residence, and economic status of the participants was observed (p < 0.05). according to the results of regression analysis, gender, frequency of physician control visit (monthly), and foot care training predicted the dfsbs score, whereas gender, education, economic status, presence of
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- Author
- Selma Şahin; Dilek Cingil
- Publisher
- Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1751-9918)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)