Nurses' attitudes towards diabetes in tertiary care: A cross-sectional study.

Ali Hassan Alhaiti,Selvanaayagam Shanmuganathan,Cliff Dacosta,Linda Katherine Jones,George Binh Lenon,Mohammed Senitan

doi:10.1002/nop2.334

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AimTo evaluate the attitude and training of nurses in Saudi Arabia towards the care of patients with diabetes.DesignA cross‐sectional study.MethodsData were collected in 2016 from 1,695 participants at the King Fahad Medical City using the Diabetes Attitude Scale version 3.ResultsMost nurses had not received diabetes training. The agreement score of nurses for the requirement of special training for the management of diabetes is high; the survey found that most nurses were aware of the psychological effect of diabetes. However, the low agreement regarding the perception of the seriousness of diabetes among nurses and the valuing of self‐care attributes such as tight control of glycaemic level in patients with diabetes indicates the need for diabetes training.

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Given the continued increase in the number of T2D cases in all parts of the world and the urgency of the issue, there is need for increased attention by healthcare professionals, especially nurses, to offer the necessary care to patients suffering from the disease. Clark (2008) has argued that improvements in the quality of care from nurses can help in the reduction in mortality from the disease (Clark, 2008)
Nurses in the current study believed strongly that there is a need for special diabetes training to care for patients with diabetes; this implies that they understood the complexity of di‐ abetes as a disease and were aware of their inadequacies in handling the various clinical, humanistic and economic issues associated with its management
As only 21.6% of nurses had received diabetes training in current study, diabetes training and certification may be important in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to raise awareness among healthcare providers (HCPs) regarding the seriousness of patients with T2D

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Given the continued increase in the number of T2D cases in all parts of the world and the urgency of the issue, there is need for increased attention by healthcare professionals, especially nurses, to offer the necessary care to patients suffering from the disease. Clark (2008) has argued that improvements in the quality of care from nurses can help in the reduction in mortality from the disease (Clark, 2008). Given the continued increase in the number of T2D cases in all parts of the world and the urgency of the issue, there is need for increased attention by healthcare professionals, especially nurses, to offer the necessary care to patients suffering from the disease. Healthcare services are provided by the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) at three levels: primary, secondary and tertiary care. Health systems with strong health care from primary to tertiary care are more likely to give greater attention to the management of diabetes, including specialized diabetes care nurses who share the responsibilities in managing the patients with the physicians’(Jab‐ bour, Yamout, Giacaman, Khawaja, & Nuwayhid, 2012; Renders et al, 2001). In certain cases where individuals may be suffering from an advanced stage of disease or illness, hospitals at the tertiary level have the capability of providing treatment with the use of state‐of‐ the‐art technology. The overall healthcare service sector in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is consolidated from the bottom (primary care) to the top (tertiary care; Jabbour et al, 2012)

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