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KMID : 1001120150120010033
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Perspectives in Nursing Science
2015 Volume.12 No. 1 p.33 ~ p.41
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Hospital Nurses’ Pre-diabetes Knowledge, Performance and Expectation of Patient Education
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김민정:Kim Min-Jeong
송미순:Song Mi-Soon
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study attempted to describe hospital nurses’ pre-diabetes knowledge, performance and expectation of patient.
Methods: The total of 204 hospital nurses were administered the questionnaires. The questionnaire comprises general background information (including sex, age, religion, education and career), ten researcher-generated questions regarding knowledge about pre-diabetes, performance of patient education (including how many people encounter in workplace, how often teaching, how many minutes required to teach and course contents) and expectation (including need improvement of teaching, barrier to education and desirable course contents and teaching methods)
Results: The average score of hospital nurses’ pre-diabetes knowledge was as low as 0.82 (82% correctness). On comparison of the knowledge levels among ten pre-diabetes knowledge dimensions, the highest score was 0.95 for necessary of medical check-up. The lowest score was 0.57 for complication can rarely happen. Significant correlations were observed for education, career and knowledge regarding pre-diabetes. Moreover, 49.5% of the nurses did not instruct patients about pre-diabetes, 24.5% taught prevention skills to a third of the pre-diabetes patients they encountered, and 61.2% nurses disseminated information under 5 minutes. Improvement was necessary for 78 nurses (75.8%).
Conclusion: Pre-diabetes awareness among nurses is necessary.
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KEYWORD
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Prediabetic state, Self care, Health education, Nurse
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