Diabetes Self-management Education Effect on Family Knowledge of Hypoglycemia Episodes Detection on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is a health education process for individuals or families in managing diabetes. AIM: This research was aimed to evaluate DSME effect on family knowledge of hypoglycemia episodes detection on Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS: Quasi-experimental design with simple random sampling was used in this study. A total of 62 family members of T2DM patients were collected from the Public Health Center, Jambi Province, Indonesia. They were divided into the intervention group (n = 31) and control group (n = 31). The intervention group received 2-month intervention, including DSME of diabetes mellitus with following stages of activity: Socialization, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The control group received standard education. Data were collected from pre- and post-test questionnaire followed by statistical analysis using paired t-test. RESULTS: There were different mean values in the family knowledge pretest-posttest between experimental groups (10.71–12.39) and control groups (9.45–12.26) to detect hypoglycemic episodes before and after DSME mentoring. There was effectiveness of DSME on family knowledge to hypoglycemia episodes detection among T2DM (p = 0.0001), including in the control group (p = 0.002) CONCLUSIONS: This study found out the significant improvements in the intervention with DSME participants hypoglycemia episodes detection knowledge. This demonstrates that our DSME may be clinical importance.