KNOWLEDGE ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE TOWARD SELF INSULIN ADMINSTRATION AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG DIABETIC PATIENTS OF GURAGE ZONE, SNNPRS, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Introduction; diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. DM patients are treated by multi dose insulin therapy which it is given through subcutaneous infusion. The study tried to addresses the gap in knowledge or understanding about DM, insulin and self-insulin administration, patient’s attitude in usage of insulin and practice toward preparation of injection site and self-administration techniques. Objective of the study is to assess knowledge attitude, and practice toward self-insulin administration and associated factors among type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients. METHODS – an institution based cross sectional study was conducted from May o6-may 23, 2022.the data was collected from 3 hospitals found in gurage zone which they are selected by simple random sampling technique. All DM patients who use SIA were included in the study. Data was collected by interview based questionnaire and was analyzed by use of SPSS version 20. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant for all variables. Result There were a total of 261 DM patients with response rate of 94.2% was taken to assess the KAP of self-insulin administration and to assess the associated factors affecting it. Regarding the knowledge level 130(49.8%) and 121(45.3%) has good knowledge and average knowledge respectively. The overall attitude of self-insulin administration is assessed by DM patients and 86.6% of study population has favorable attitude. The overall practice of SIA among DM patient shows that 3.4% of them has poor practice of SIA. . It’s expected from the patient to have the knowledge, favorable attitude and good practice in having proper insulin therapy