PMID- 33527808
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210203
LR  - 20220420
IS  - 0004-5772 (Print)
IS  - 0004-5772 (Linking)
VI  - 69
IP  - 2
DP  - 2021 Feb
TI  - Diabetic Foot Care Knowledge and Practices in Rural North India: Insights for 
      Preventive Podiatry.
PG  - 30-34
AB  - BACKGROUND: Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is one of the most dreaded complications of 
      Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). Preventive podiatry is most efficient way of 
      minimising DFU. The main aim of the study was to assess the knowledge and foot 
      care practices among patients living with T2DM concerning the DFU. MATERIALS AND 
      METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study in a rural-area of Haryana, India 
      between January to March 2019 amongst 416 people living with T2DM after using 
      multistage random sampling. A pre-tested, structured survey instrument prepared 
      from the recommendation of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and 
      the Diabetes UK was used after Hindi translation as per standard protocol. The 
      knowledge and practices were classified as good, satisfactory and poor if the 
      total score was between 8-11, 6-7 and <6. RESULTS: 14.2% had a previous history 
      of DFU. The prevalence of good, satisfactory and poor knowledge was 63.5%, 12.5% 
      and 24.0%. Further, 46.7%, 32.7% and 20.6% respondents depicted good, 
      satisfactory and poor practices regarding foot care. On multivariate binary 
      logistic regression analysis, younger age group, higher education, Per capita 
      family income in INR, Blood glucose levels, HbA1c Levels, physical activity and 
      previous history of DFU emerged as significant predictors of good foot-care 
      knowledge and practices. CONCLUSION: There is an evident gap between foot-care 
      knowledge and practices that should be addressed through comprehensive behaviour 
      change strategies. Comprehensive risk-assessments for diabetes associated 
      complications needs to be piloted at community level to assess the feasibility.
CI  - (c) Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 2011.
FAU - Verma, Madhur
AU  - Verma M
AD  - Department of Community & Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical 
      Sciences, Bathinda, Punjab.
FAU - Sharma, Nikita
AU  - Sharma N
AD  - Department of Community Medicine & School of Public Health, PGIMER Chandigarh.
FAU - Rashi
AU  - Rashi
AD  - Department of Community Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana.
FAU - Arora, Varun
AU  - Arora V
AD  - Department of Community Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana.
FAU - Bashar, M A
AU  - Bashar MA
AD  - Department of Community Medicine & School of Public Health, PGIMER Chandigarh.
FAU - Nath, Bhola
AU  - Nath B
AD  - Department of Community & Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical 
      Sciences, Bathinda, Punjab.
FAU - Kalra, Sanjay
AU  - Kalra S
AD  - Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, Haryana.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - J Assoc Physicians India
JT  - The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
JID - 7505585
SB  - IM
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications/epidemiology
MH  - *Diabetic Foot/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/epidemiology
MH  - *Podiatry
EDAT- 2021/02/03 06:00
MHDA- 2021/02/04 06:00
CRDT- 2021/02/02 08:10
PHST- 2021/02/02 08:10 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/02/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/02/04 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Assoc Physicians India. 2021 Feb;69(2):30-34.