The Effect of Empowerment on Glycemic Control Practices and HbA1c in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
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Empowerment, HbA1c, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2Abstract
This study was two groups pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design aimed to investigate the impact of empowerment on glycemic control practices and HbA1c in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The samples consisted of 74 type 2 diabetes mellitus patients, divided equally into an experimental group and a controlled group through simple random sampling. Gibson’s empowerment concept was applied to the experimental group, while the control group received standard care. Research tools included an empowerment plan for type 2 diabetes mellitus patients, a glycemic control practices (with a content validity of 0.96 and a reliability of 0.80 measured by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square tests and t-tests.
Results showed as follows the study revealed that after the empowerment implementation, glycemic control practices significantly improved in the experimental group compared to before the intervention (p<.05), and this improvement was notably greater than that observed in the control group (p<.05). HbA1c significantly improvement was notably less than that observed in the controlled group (p<.05)
The research indicates that the empowerment can enhance glycemic control practices and HbA1c in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Therefore, empowerment should be applied to develop continuous self-care skills.
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