Effects of Foot Care Knowledge and Foot Care Program with Coconut Shell Stepping with Foot Numbness on Foot Care Behaviors and Foot Numbness in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Uncontrollable Glucose Levels

Abstract

Purposes : To compare foot care behaviors and foot numbness in type 2 diabetes mellitus with uncontrollable glucose levels

Study design : Quasi-experimental design; One group time series design.

Materials and Methods : 29 of subjects were type 2 diabetes mellitus with uncontrolled glucose levels who met the inclusion criteria. Data were collected using a questionnaire with cronbach's alpha coefficient .89 and data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and paired t-test, significance was set at 95% confidence interval.

Main findings : After the experiment, it was found that the subjects had a mean score of overall foot care behavior significantly higher than before the experiment (p<.001), with a mean foot care behaviors score of more than 12.48 scores (95%CI:8.15, 16.81) and the subjects had the mean overall foot numbness score, statistically significantly lower than before the experiment (p<.001), with the mean score of foot care behavior more than 2.14 scores (95%CI: 1.55, 2.72).

Conclusion and recommendations : The results of this study resulted in type 2 diabetes mellitus with uncontrolled glucose levels having increased foot care behavior and decreased foot numbness 2.