The Effect of Self-Care on Glycated Hemoglobin and Fasting Blood Sugar Levels on Adolescents with Diabetes

Kazeminezhad, Behrang; Taghinejad, Hamid; Borji, Milad; Tarjoman, Asma

doi:10.5812/compreped.62661

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“…The major feature of home phototherapy is the lack of mother-infant separation (14). Neonatal and child health in adulthood is important (15)(16)(17). Phototherapy at home can be a proper substitute for hospital interventions if the parents are educated about home phototherapy it is done under the supervision of trained nurses.…”

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Efficacy of Home Phototherapy in Neonatal Jaundice

2019

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Background: Jaundice is one of the most common problems in the neonatal period. Phototherapy is one of the most commonly used treatments for jaundice that can be used as a simple, practical home-based treatment. Hospitalization during the first days of birth to conduct phototherapy may result in problems like nosocomial infections and mother separation from the baby. Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of home phototherapy in the duration of treatment, mean bilirubin level, and complications. Methods: This clinical trial was performed on newborns with jaundice in Isfahan health centers. The sample was randomly divided into two groups: Phototherapy at home (32 patients) and phototherapy at the hospital (32 patients). A demographic questionnaire and a researcher-made checklist were used to collect data on variables such as the duration of treatment, the frequency of treatment failure, mean bilirubin, and phototherapy complications. Results: The mean duration of phototherapy in both groups was two days, which showed no significant difference (P = 0.32). The most common complication in both groups was skin rashes and restlessness, which also showed no significant between two groups (P > 0.05). There was no significant difference in terms of treatment failure (P = 0.246). Statistical tests also revealed that bilirubin reduction was the same in both groups. Conclusions: Home phototherapy can be suggested as a safe treatment with no complication to the patients.

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Efficacy of Home Phototherapy in Neonatal Jaundice

2019

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“…Triage nurses should be able to make appropriate decisions in a relatively short time, usually in a unknown and emotional situation (10). Nurses are one of the most important health care provider groups for children (17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23). Studies revealed several barriers to accurate triage, specially for children (24).…”

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The Comparative Study on Pediatric Triage Decision-Making Power in Nurses and Nursing Students: A Cross Sectional Study

2019

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Background: Triage nurses are the first people in the emergency department providing care to patients. Their knowledge is very important in efficient triage. According to the few studies on the factors affecting triage, the current study aimed at investigating the nurses and nursing students' knowledge about the triage of children. Objectives: Accordingly, the current study aimed at determining the level of knowledge of nursing students and nurses about pediatric triage and the impact of knowledge on the triage performance, in Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Methods: The current descriptive, cross sectional study was conducted on 88 nurses and 88 nursing students selected through a census sampling from a selected hospital. The data were collected over one month in 2017, by means of a researcher-made questionnaire that included: Demographic characteristics (age, gender, degree, etc.) and knowledge level of staff. The validity of the questionnaire was determined by content validity and its reliability was measured by a test-retest method. After transferring the data into SPSS, statistical analysis was performed by descriptive and inferential statistical tests such as the Wilcoxon and Kruskal-Wallis. The level of significance was P < 0.05. Results: A total of 176 questionnaires were completed. A review of the responses given in the knowledge section revealed that 94.3% of the nurses and students were within the weak range. There was no significant relationship between demographic characteristics and triage knowledge in nurses and nursing students (P > 0.05). Conclusions: According to the current study results, knowledge of nurses and nursing students should be reinforced to better accomplish patient's triage. Since emergency nurses are among the most important staff in providing the prioritizing triage, therefore, nursing education programs should include triage courses that retain mastery in this scope.

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“…They concluded that the proposed nutrition program resulted in a remarkable decrease of about 0.3 to 1.03 in the patients' HbA 1c . HbA 1c has been reported to drop as a result of other interventions including self-care intervention (Kazeminezhad et al, 2018) and medical nutrition therapy (Pastors et al, 2002).…”

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Effect of a Nutrition Education Program on Improving Hemoglobin A1c and Body Mass Index of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Erbil City

Saadi

Omer

2020

Polytechnic j.

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Due to remarkable changes in lifestyles, there has recently been an increase in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) among individuals of all age ranges in both developed and developing countries. Changing the patients’ lifestyles by modifying their diet through nutrition education programs decreases their body mass index (BMI), hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and reverses DM. This study aimed to determine the effect of a proposed nutrition education program on BMI and HbA1c among patients with type 2 DM (T2DM). The present clinical trial was conducted on 42 patients with T2DM in Diabetes Center in Erbil-Kurdistan Region-Iraq, from December 2018 to September 2019. Data were collected using a customs questionnaire before the study and after educational sessions in which the patients were educated about an appropriate diet based on a proposed nutrition education program. In the first session and after third session, the patients’ BMI and HbA1c were measured. According to the results, most of the patients aged 45–64 years, a majority of the patients lived in urban areas (95.2%), were illiterate (33.3%), and were obese (76.2%). Due to the nutrition education program, remarkable decrease was observed in the patients’ high (BMI) and high HbA1c and experienced a mean decrease of (2.6%) from 34.0 ± 5.6 to 31.4 ± 5.2, and HbA1c decreased about (2.0%) on average from 8.9 ± 1.9 to 6.9 ± 0.9. High BMI and high HbA1c can be controlled and decreased through appropriate nutrition education programs.

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The Effect of Self-Care on Glycated Hemoglobin and Fasting Blood Sugar Levels on Adolescents with Diabetes

Cited by 28 publications

References 16 publications

Efficacy of Home Phototherapy in Neonatal Jaundice

Efficacy of Home Phototherapy in Neonatal Jaundice

The Comparative Study on Pediatric Triage Decision-Making Power in Nurses and Nursing Students: A Cross Sectional Study

Effect of a Nutrition Education Program on Improving Hemoglobin A1c and Body Mass Index of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Erbil City

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