This research seeks to examine how the diabetes education influences upon patients’ knowledge of diabetes and sick role behavior in Diabetic patient. The research is based on the data from the patients who visited endocrine divisions of university hospitals in Seoul from July 1st to August 7th, 2006. In order to understand the influence of education on diabetes, we divided 138 outpatients into two groups: a group of 92 patients having received education on diabetes and a group of 46 patients without such education.
First, we examined the influence of diabetes education on patients’ knowledge of diabetes. Next, we looked into the influence of the education on patients’ role performance. Finally, we analyzed the correlations between diabetes education and knowledge of diabetes and between the former and patients’ role performance. As a research instrument, we used a questionnaire prepared by 박오장(1984) and edited by a medical doctor and three nurses.
To analyze the demographical characteristics of the subjects, we used the Chi-square test concerning diabetes education. To analyze the relationships between diabetes education and knowledge of diabetes and between the former and sick role behavior in Diabetic patient, we used the t-test.
To sum up, the degrees of diabetes knowledge acquired by patient groups with and without diabetes education experiences showed no significant difference (t = 1.151, P> .001). Concerning the relationship between diabetes education experiences and patients’ role performance, the educated group showed significantly better performance than the uneducated group ( t =12.49, P〈.001).
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