Conocimientos sobre diabetes en pacientes diabéticos tipo 2 y su relación con la adherencia al tratamiento nutricional, en el Hospital Homero Castanier, 2021-2022

Abstract

Background: Diabetes is the second cause of death in Ecuador, adherence to nutritional treatment allows proper management of chronic diseases, lack of knowledge about diabetes is associated with greater complications and higher mortality. Objective: To determine knowledge on diabetes and its relationship with adherence to nutritional treatment, in patients with type 2 diabetes, at the Homero Castanier Hospital, 2021-2022. Methods: Cross-sectional analytical study, with a sample of 180 randomized patients, from the internal medicine outpatient clinic of the Homero Castanier Hospital. The results of the sociodemographic variables are presented in tables of frequency and percentages, for the dependent variable and independent variable association measures were used, prevalence ratio CI 95%, and for statistical significance the chi square with a lower p value was used. to 0.05. The free SPSS Statistics Version 21 program was used for data tabulation. Results: The majority of the study population was female with 53.89%. Adequate knowledge about diabetes is 23.9% and the prevalence of adherence to nutritional treatment was 32.8%. Conclusions: Adherence to nutritional treatment is associated with knowledge of diabetes, with a value of p (0.028).