Effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge of self administration of insulin inj. among diabetes mellitus patient

Today India is called the diabetes mellitus world capital. Some alarming diabetes statistics shows that there is one person in the world dying of diabetes every ten seconds. There will be two new diabetic cases in the world being identified every ten seconds. Therefore a need was assessed and the researcher was challenged to explore the knowledge of diabetes among diabetes mellitus patients. Quasi experimental approach was used with purposive sampling technique. The demographic variables were age, gender, education, family history of diabetes mellitus, duration of illness, duration of self administration of insulin injection. The independent variable was structured teaching programme regarding self administration of insulin injection. The dependent variable was knowledge of self administration of insulin injection among diabetes mellitus patients. The final study was done on 40 patients who were self administering insulin injection. 20 diabetes mellitus patients were selected in control group who were admitted in the wards and 20 diabetes mellitus patients were selected in experimental group from diabetic clinic. Data was analyzed by inferential statistics and presented through tables and figures.