THE CURRENT STATUS OF KNOWLEDGE AND TREATMENT NEEDS OF PATIENTS DIABETES ARE MANAGED IN BAC TU LIEM DISTRICT, HANOI

Dinh Thi Thanh1, Tran Van Huong, Truong Viet Dung2
1 Medical center of Bac Tu Liem, Hanoi
2 National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology

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Objective: to assess the current status of knowledge and treatment needs of patients with diabetes managed in some wards in Bac Tu Liem District, Hanoi in 2018. Methods: A cross sectional study on 320 patients with Diabetes. Results and conclusion: 88.9% of patients with diabetes were over 60 years old, in the age group under 40 there was 1 patient, accounting for 0.3%. Most patients have understanding of risk factors for NCD, however, between 0.4% and 5.8% of patients do not know risk factors for NCD. For diabetes, the majority of patients understand the knowledge of recognition, complications, treatment, and diet of diabetes, but there are still some patients who do not know about diabetes knowledge: symptoms of diabetes (6.9%), complications (10.1%), treatments (3.7%), diet (3.2%). 93.1% of patients have a need to provide knowledge about diabetes. 87.1% of patients are being treated at the hospital, 3.2% of patients are being treated at home. Only 49.2% of patients wanted to be treated at a hospital, while 41.2% of patients wanted to be treated at a health station.

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