Diabetes education in Grampian: a study.
In a widely scattered area such as Grampian, patients' needs, staffing requirements and methods of delivery of health care are different from those found in a densely populated urban area. Although this may be seen as desirable from the point of view of meeting the individual needs of patients from diverse backgrounds, there are also problems in that consistency of quality of care may fluctuate. Recognising that the quantity and quality of patient education offered to diabetic patients in Grampian may vary according to their geographical location, the author and her colleagues set out to investigate the provision and quality of education on diabetes for both patients and nurses. The results indicated that there were significant gaps in patients', relatives' and nurses' knowledge of diabetes. Introducing a standard diabetes education system was found to be one way of improving levels of knowledge in the Grampian area.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients / Q000193:education; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012606:Scotland; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires