Web-Based Education versus Counseling on Diabetic Patients' Outcomes

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common non-communicable diseases globally, and its related complications result in increasing disability, reduced life expectancy and enormous health costs. Diabetes management education is a critical element of care for all people with diabetes and it is necessary to improve patient outcomes through traditional diabetes patient education strategy and/or through internet based education that has the opportunity to expand the to the massive individuals with diabetes Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency of Web-Based education versus counseling on diabetic patients' outcomes including patients' diabetic knowledge, level of self-efficacy, self- care activities and blood glucose level. The design of this study was a quasi-experimental research design.. Setting: The study was conducted at the outpatient clinic for diabetes in Ain Shams University hospitals, Cairo, Egypt. The Subjects: Purposive sample of patients were included in the study. Patients for this study were adult and diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Patients divided randomly into two equal groups (45 patients each) to constitute the web-based group and counseling

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Fathia Ahmed Mersal PhD in Nursing science community Health Nursing 2007 from Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University. Published many articles in International journal. work as a lecturer in Faculty of nursing Ain Shams University, also work as assistant professor in college of Nursing Qassim university.