title: State of patients' knowledge about treatment and proceedings in type 2 diabetes.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the research was to evaluate the level of patients' knowledge about type 2 diabetes, treatment and proceedings in the case of the disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  100 patients suffering from type 2 diabetes were included in the research, aged 40-90 years (64% and 36%), who lived in the countryside (54%) and in the city (46%), hospitalized in the internal and geriatric wards in provincial hospitals of the Podkarpacie Region in south-eastern Poland. The research method was a diagnostic survey conducted by use of a questionnaire that consisted of 31 both multiple choice and open questions. Among the respondents, 64% were women and 36% men. Among them, 18% were aged from 40-50, 20% aged from 51-60, 28% from 61-70, 24% from 71-80-years-old, and 10% of respondents were aged over 80. Among the examined, 12% were treated only by diet, 24% by insulin, 18% by insulin and diet.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From among respondents cured by insulin, 52% of them administered their own injections, 36% had the injections administered by a family member, and 12% had the injections administered by a nurse. From among the patients, 70% knew the symptoms of hypo- and hyperglycaemia, 84% knew how to react in the case of hypoglycaemia, but only 56% knew how to react in the case of hyperglycaemia. From among respondents, 68% controlled the skin if the feet.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Over a half of the respondents (70%) know the symptoms of diabetes and mentioned frequent urination (77%) and increased thirst (65%), but 30% had no knowledge of the symptoms of diabetes. The state of the patients' knowledge about different complications of the disease was in insufficient.
authors: Department of Clinical Endoscopy, Institute of Rural Health, Lublin, Poland.
authors: Rafal
authors: R
authors: Filip
authors: Institute of Healthcare, The Bronisław Markiewicz State School of Technology and Economics, Jarosław, Poland.
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Lewandowska
authors: Institute of Healthcare, The Bronisław Markiewicz State School of Technology and Economics, Jarosław, Poland.
authors: Malgorzata
authors: M
authors: Szczepankiewicz
authors: Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
authors: Blanka
authors: B
authors: Majda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires