Abstract
Diabetes education, with its role in improvement in knowledge, attitude and practice, lead to better control of the disease, and is accepted to be an important part of diabetes management. The Study aimed to determine the effect of diabetes education on health status of type 2 diabetes patients attending Diabetes Mini Clinics at Primary Health Care centers in Khartoum state, Sudan. The study design was quasi-experimental. Sample of seventy-eight type 2 diabetes patients was selected from eleven reverence family health centers, which contain diabetes mini clinic. Seventy of participants continued until the end of the study. A pre –post questionnaire was used to collect the data, which entered and analyzed by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, percentage, mean and standard deviation and paired T. test were used to analyze the data. The level of statistical significance was set at P. value ˂ 0.05. The results showed Diabetes education had positive effect on glycemic control (P. value = .001), diastolic blood pressure (P. value = .017), and quality of life (P. value = .001). The study recommended that coverage of primary health care centers with diabetes education service is very important and other studies is needed for more evaluation. 
Highlights
Introduction and BackgroundToday the world is threatened by growing epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus in all ages
The results showed Diabetes education had positive effect on glycemic control (P. value =.001), diastolic blood pressure (P. value =.017), and quality of life (P. value =.001)
The objective of the Study was to determine the effect of diabetes education on health status (blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), glycemic control and diabetes specific quality of life) of type 2 diabetes patients attending Diabetes Mini Clinics at Primary Health Care centers in Khartoum state, Sudan
Summary
Today the world is threatened by growing epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus in all ages. In Sudan and according to Sudan household survey report 2006, the prevalence of diabetes is about 14.50%. The deaths due to diabetes mellitus in Sudan reached 2.17% of all deaths, The age adjusted death rate is 38.76 per 100.000 of population according to WHO data published in 2011 (World life expectancy, 2013). Diabetes mellitus in Sudan is associated with a low quality of life, a high HbA1c and a high prevalence of micro and macro vascular complications. In Khartoum state, the prevalence of diabetes among adult is 19.20 %, (Khartoum State Household Survey repot, 2005). Type 2 diabetes can cause acute and chronic complications, which might affect the wellbeing status of the patients in their physical, mental, and social lives (Htet, 2009)
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