Conhecimento e atitudes em indivíduos com diabetes mellitus tipo 2: subsídios para o planejamento de ações para o autocuidado e de promoção da saúde

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Andréia Aparecida da
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório do Centro Universitário Braz Cubas
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/604
• topic: Diabetes mellitus; Conhecimento; Atitude; Promoção da saúde; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA::SAUDE PUBLICA

Descriptive and correlational study, conducted at six Basic Health Units of the Family of a city in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the period July-August 2012. The aim was to determine the knowledge and attitudes of individuals with diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2), users of the Family Health Strategy for the planning of self-care and health promotion, characterizing individuals according to sociodemographic and time diagnostics, identifying the aspects related to general knowledge of people about diabetes and attitudes that present before the disease. Established a stratified random sample, per unit, considering a margin of error of approximately 6.2%, totaling 178 people with T2DM. Data were collected through a systematic roadmap containing sociodemographic variables, time of diagnosis and questionnaires Diabetes Knowledge Questionnaire (DKN-A) and Diabetes Attitude Questionnaire (TA-19). The results showed that most participants were 70.8% female, 53.4% were aged 60-79 years and 83.7% were illiterate or had finished high school, 62.4% were married or cohabiting and 52.3% were retired. Of the participants, 41.0% had a diagnosis of T2DM for a period of up to five years. Most users (58.4%) had scores less than or equal to eight issues in the questionnaire DKN-A, pointing to an unsatisfactory about knowledge and understanding about the disease. As for the scores of the questionnaire ATT-19, which measures attitudes toward coping with the disease, we obtained a 99% score lower than 70, indicating low readiness to face it. There was no significant difference in the correlation between the scores of both questionnaires with sex, and education of participants and the time of diagnosis. The results raised the need to reflect the care model adopted and reinforced the importance of the planning of self-care and health promotion specific to the population studied.