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KMID : 0941820140240010033
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Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
2014 Volume.24 No. 1 p.33 ~ p.38
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Relationship Survey Study between Diabetic Control Education and Diabetic Retinopathy: data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey V
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Jang Ha-Na
Han Jung-Hoon
Bang Joon-Seok
Sohn Uy-Dong
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Abstract
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Background: Diabetes is accompanied by complications. One of the chronic complications, diabetic retinopathy is the most common cause of the loss of eyesight and thus has enormous impacts on the quality of life to the patients. It has been reported that thorough glucose regulation can prevent or postpone the outset of diabetic retinopathy in diabetic
patients and that the patients who received anti-diabetic manage & care education would be capable of more thorough
glucose-level regulation than those who did not.
Method: This study set out to investigate the current state of education on anti-diabetic manage & care in South Korea and connections between anti-diabetic manage & care education and occurrence of diabetic retinopathy in diabetic patients based on the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2011.
Results: Of the 410 diabetes patients, 74 received anti-diabetic manage & care education, which means that only 15% of diabetic patients benefited from the education in the nation. The occurrence rate of diabetic retinopathy was 28% in the education group and 24% in the non-education group with no significant differences between
them. The anti-diabetic manage & care education group recorded a higher occurrence rate of diabetic retinopathy, one
of the chronic diabetic complications, than the non-education group contrary to the hypothesis. One of the reasons was
that the educated group had a significantly longer duration of diabetes and significantly higher HbA1c than the noneducated
group, which indicates that anti-diabetic manage & care education is provided to those who have progressed
farther along the course of diabetes instead of the early stage and cannot regulate their glucose-level well in the nation.
Conclusion: Those findings raise a need for active educational policies in order to provide anti-diabetic manage & care education under the goals of preventing complications through anti-diabetic education for many patients in early stages of diabetes.
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KEYWORD
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Diabetes, Management education, Retinopathy’ Complication
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