A comparative study to assess the effectiveness of infra red radiation and insulin dressing in healing of diabetic ulcer foot in a selected health care setting-Tamilnadu

Diabetes is the common health problem in worldwide, diabetes may begin at the early ages and it affects both the gender. Undetected or untreated diabetes leads to multisystem complications. One among the major visible complication is diabetic ulcer foot. This study assessed compared and evaluated the effect of infra-red radiation application and insulin dressing in the healing of diabetic foot ulcer and also studied the influence of extraneous variables. The study was conducted at selected medical college hospital, Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu-India. In a pre-experimental pre test post test design 150 diabetic clients with foot ulcer were included as samples. 75 ulcer feet were treated with Infra-red radiation and 75 were treated with insulin dressing for 10 days. Modified Bates-Jensen wound assessment tool was used to assess the wound size and depth. The pre test wound mean scores were 51.50 and 50.24 respectively in the infra-red radiation and insulin dressing groups. The post test mean scores were 20.32 and 24.25 respectively in the infra-red radiation and insulin dressing groups. The paired t values were 68.3 in the infra-red radiation group and 45.3 in the insulin dressing group. The F value was 60.7, the study concluded that both the interventions had significant role in the healing of diabetic ulcer foot but infra-red radiation was more effective than insulin dressing.