title: Dietary practice and associated factors among type 2 diabetic patients: a cross sectional hospital based study, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Dietary management which is considered to be one of the cornerstones of diabetes care is based on the principle of healthy eating in the context of social, cultural and psychological influences on food choice. In Ethiopia, there is lack of data on the dietary practice of diabetic patients which underestimates its role in the management of diabetes. Hence, this study assesses the level of dietary practices and their associated factors among Type 2 diabetic patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Institution-based cross-sectional quantitative study design was employed. A total of 403 study subjects were included in the study. A pretested questionnaire was used to collect data. The collected data were entered into Epi Info version 3.5.3 and exported to SPSS version 20.0 software packages for further statistical analysis. The data were analyzed using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression. The degree of association between dependent and independent variables was assessed using the odds ratio with a 95% confidence interval and variables with p-value ≤0.05 were considered significant.
  
  
  RESULTS
  About 46.4% of the patients were overweight and obese. More than half of the respondents (58.8%) had FBG level ≥ 126 mg/dl. The level of dietary practice among 207 (51.4%) type 2 diabetic patients was poor. Not getting nutrition education in hospitals [AOR = 4.47, 95% CI: (1.92,10.40)], despondency [AOR = 2.15, 95% CI: (1.14,4.02)], facing difficulty to choose foods [AOR = 9.66, 95% CI: (5.12,18.24)], non- availability of fruits and vegetables [AOR = 2.78, 95% CI: (1.03,7.54)], thinking about the high cost of foods [AOR = 2.36,95% CI: (1.18, 4.70)] were the factors significantly associated with the poor dietary practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings of this study indicated that the majority of the patients had poor dietary practice. Therefore, the integration of diabetic based nutrition education with motivation and home gardening is highly recommended.
authors: Department of Human Nutrition, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
authors: Amelmal
authors: A
authors: Worku
authors: Department of Human Nutrition, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
authors: Solomon
authors: S
authors: Mekonnen Abebe
authors: Department of Human Nutrition, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
authors: Molla Mesele
authors: MM
authors: Wassie
keywords: Addis Ababa; Dietary practice; Ethiopia; Type 2 diabetes; Yekatit 12 hospital
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