title: Improving foot self-care behaviors with Pies Sanos.
abstract: Participants who received Pies Sanos, a 15-min intervention designed to improve diabetes self-efficacy and foot self-care behaviors in adult patients with type 2 diabetes who lived in a predominantly Mexican American community, performed more-complete foot self-care 1 month later in their homes. Recruited when they presented for nonurgent care to the emergency department in two community hospitals near the U.S.-Mexico border, participants were randomized into one of three groups. At follow-up, there was a significant difference in observed foot self-care behaviors between groups, F(2, 135) = 2.99, p < .05, as well as a significant difference within the intervention, t (47) = -4.32, p < .01, and control group, t (46) = -2.06, p < .05, for baseline and follow-up self-reported foot self-care behaviors. Baseline diabetes self-efficacy was significantly and positively correlated with both baseline (r = .335, p < .001) and follow-up ( r = .174, p < .05) foot self-care behaviors.
authors.affiliation: New Mexico State University, USA. wjborges@nmsu.edu
authors.forename: Wanda J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Borges
authors.forename: Sharon K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Ostwald
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology*; D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000193:education / Q000208:ethnology; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009516:New Mexico; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000208:ethnology*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology; D020377:Self Efficacy; D017592:Skin Care / Q000523:psychology