Intervención educativa para la prevención del pie diabético en pacientes con diabetes mellitus de 35 a 55 años del Centro de Especialidades Médicas Doctor Lenin, Riobamba, enero – marzo 2022.

Abstract

Diabetic foot is the destruction, infección, and swelling of foot tissue that is associated with a neuropathy known as peripheral vascular disease in the lower limbs of patients with diabetes, as a complication of maintaining high levels of glucose in the blood. This research was carried out with the aim of applying an Educational intervention to raise awareness about the prevention of diabetic foot in patients between 35 to 55 years of age with a condition called Diabetes Mellitus at The Medical Specialties Centre Doctor Lenin, Riobamba, January- March 2022. This research used the descriptive and applied method with a qualitative approach, prospective, longitudinal with a pre and post measurement of the impact of educational intervention. The universe was 120 diabetic patients from whom 86 were part of the study, as they complied with the inclusion criteria. The sample was selected by means of non-probabilistic criteria. Moreover, for the data analysis, the latest version of Jamovi 2.3.16 free software was used. The results showed that levels of awareness after the intervention were modified within the patients in the sample despite having different educational backgrounds, the results post-interventions were satisfactory and between 98 and 97% of the sampled population knew about how to take care of diabetic feet, resulting in a hypothesis of p <0.001 rejecting the null and accepting the alternative hypothesis, verifying that the application of an educational intervention contributed to the improvement of awareness to prevent diabetic foot in patients between 35 to 55 years old with Diabetes mellitus at The Medical Specialties Centre Doctor Lenin, Riobamba, January- March 2022. As a conclusion, the educational intervention achieved the improvement in rising awareness about the most feared complications in patients with diabetes mellitus which is the diabetic foot.