A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. / The purpose of this research was to assess the
quality of the inpatient, health education diabetes
program as it relates to primary Spanish
speaking patients. Complications from diabetes
account for huge personal and financial costs.
There is substantial evidence supporting the use
of targeted diabetes education to reduce
complications but we need to know if our
education interventions are valid. In order to
accomplish this by auditing the knowledge of a
sample of inpatient diabetics before and after
receiving the standard MMC Spanish language
diabetes education interventions via Spanish
language pre and post surveys (standardized by
the previously validated SKILLD survey).
Demographic and clinical data were analyzed
and all significant data (p value <0.05) were
considered for their importance. The data
demonstrated that in all 10 items on the survey,
overall patients were able to demonstrate
significant improvement in survey scores.
Additionally, comparisons of demographic data
demonstrated that being less than 50 years old
was associated with improved survey scores.
This indicates overall benefit of the training
program as well as possible insight into need for
more aggressive training for patients greater than
50 years in age.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/627150 |
| Date | 28 March 2018 |
| Creators | Cagle, Jonathan |
| Contributors | The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, Abdollahi, Shagyegh MD |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the College of Medicine - Phoenix, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. |
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