Knowledge of self-care practices in diabetes: compasso

• Autor(a) principal: Neves, Natália Wilcesky Tosini
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Breder, Jéssica da Silva Cunha, Antunes, Joaquim Barreto, Torres, Heloisa Carvalho, Sposito, Andrei Carvalho, Lima, Maria Helena de Melo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/15062
• topic: Diabetes mellitus tipo 2; Autocuidado; Enfermería; Enfermedad crónica; Educación para la salud.; Diabetes mellitus type 2; Self-care; Nursing; Chronic disease; Health education.; Diabetes mellitus tipo 2; Autocuidado; Enfermagem; Doença crônica; Educação em saúde.

Objective: This study aims to learn about self-care and self-perception practices and difficulties related to complications in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus through a Compasso protocol application over the phone. Methods: Cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach that included 222 people with type 2 diabetes. Two instruments were applied: the first composed of sociodemographic information and clinical variables and the second, the Compasso protocol. Results: The difficulties in managing self-care were: physical activity (33.33%) and following the diet plan (32.43%). The possible complications of diabetes that patients believe to have a higher incidence were vision problems (24.32%), cardiovascular complications (22.52%), followed by amputation (19.82%). Most of the participants reported following the diet plan three to four times a week (27.5%), 44.6% did not perform any physical activity at least once a week. 94.6% of the participants reported using the medication every day of the week. However, regarding clinical variables, 58.6% of participants are out of the glycemic goal, with glycated hemoglobin >7%, 44.6% of patients are obese, 61.5% of men and 88.5% of women have a waist circumference above desirable. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that following the diet plan and doing physical activity have been the biggest barriers to self-care of diabetes. Most patients report that problems with vision and cardiovascular complications are the possible consequences of lack of self-care.