After receiving language concordant, individual health education interventions, do Spanish speaking, diabetic inpatients at a safety net hospital demonstrate acquired diabetes self-management competency as measured by pre-training and post training evaluation of key, diabetes self-management knowledge?

Description

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.

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1. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627150
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Diabetic Patients

Spanish Speakers

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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
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