Effectiveness of Family Care Team with Mental Health Care among Diabetic Patients with poor glycemic control in Primary Care Unit Soem Sai Subdistrict, Soem Ngam District, Lampang Province
Keywords:
Diabetes, network of primary care unit, depression, stressAbstract
This community trial, in two groups design with pretest and posttest measurement aimed to study effectiveness of caring by family physician care team in conjunction with mental health care among diabetic patients with poor glycemic control undergoing services in the network of primary care unit (NPCU) in Soem Sai sub-district, Soem Ngam district, Lampang province during August 2021 to January 2022. Population was 132 diabetic patients with poor glycemic control, divided into 66 persons per place. The instruments included 1) a questionnaire consisting of personal data questions, depression assessment questions, and stress assessment questions 2) blood glucose measurement scale and caring program by family physician care team in conjunction with mental health care. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, paired t-test and Pearson correlation.
The study revealed that undergoing services at Thapong NPCU and Soem Ngam Hospital were not associated with changing in HbA1c. The group of patients undergoing services at Thapong NPCU had a large decrease in the average depression score and the average stress score more than the group of patients undergoing services at Soem Ngam Hospital with statistically significance (p-value<.05). Changes in the depression score and stress score were positively associated with HbA1c of the posttest with statistically significance 0.05. It was also found that the changed stress score was positively associated with changed HbA1c with statistically significance level of 0.05.Therefore, caring diabetic patients with poor glycemic control to undergoing services at NPCU should make a close care plan by a multidisciplinary team and mental health care should be taken into consideration as well.
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