만성질환 교육이 고혈압, 당뇨병 환자의 지식수준에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Objectives: This study is based on Public Care Service for Chronic Diseases in Incheon Metropolitan City featuring Health-Point Service. It is objective to evaluate whether the service could improve self-management ability of hypertension and diabetes patients. Methods: Theknowledge about diabetes and hypertension, which can be improved by educational intervention, is considered as one of the most importantfactor for self-management ability. While the education service have been conducted, 194 patients who have been diagnosed ashypertension and diabetes within 3 months were included. They completed questionnaires two times within 4 months period, which giveinformation about the knowledge, service registration and education experiences. For further inspection, 396 patients who had beendiagnosed formerly were studied by cross-sectional analysis. Results: Regardless of service registration or educational intervention, therewasn't statistically meaningful difference between the initial and the follow-up assessments on the knowledge. However, when investigatingformerly diagnosed patients, educated patients had better knowledge on hypertension compared with non-educated patients and registeredpatients, educated patients had the better knowledge on diabetes compared with non-registered patients, non-educated patients. Additionally,analyzing each questions, educated patients got higher grades in questions about definition of hypertension, diabetes managements whichthey can practice in daily lives. Conclusions: It is probable that long-term service registration and education experiences could improvethe knowledge and self-management ability.