A descriptive study to assess the awareness on management of hypoglycaemia among diabetic clients in PSG hospitals

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a foremost health problem in the globe. Diabetes mellitus describes a metabolic disorder of manifold etiologies characterized by chronic hypoglycemia with disturbances of carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism. Creating alertness on signs and symptoms among diabetic clients may lessen the complications. The objectives were to assess the knowledge of diabetic clients regarding management of hypoglycemia and to find the association between the knowledge of diabetic clients on management of hypoglycemia and their selected demographic variable. The descriptive survey design was adopted by selecting 60 samples using purposive sampling technique. Out of sixty samples, 32(53.4%) were male and 28(46.6%) of the samples were female. Most of the samples 23 (38.33%) belongs to age group between 31-40 years. More than half of the samples, 40(66.66%) were using hypoglycemic agents. 33(55%) were taking medication once a day. 18 ((30%) samples were having the history of hypoglycemic symptoms. whereas, 7(11.66%) of them were not confident about the hypoglycemic symptoms. Only 24(40%) of them were conscious about the selfmanagement of hypoglycemia. The study highlights that the diabetes mellitus clients 13(21.6%) were having adequate knowledge, 39(65%) were having moderately adequate knowledge and 8(13.3%) had inadequate knowledge on management of hypoglycemia. The study concluded that it helped to identify the knowledge regarding hypoglycemia on diabetes mellitus patients and created awareness on hypoglycemic conditions using information booklet will enhance the patients to reduce the complications.