The Outcome of Nutrition Education between General Programs and Nutrition Education Program for Diabetes Mellitus Patients at Buriram Hospital

Abstract

Objective : To compared the study outcome of nutrition education programs between general programs and nutrition education program for diabetes mellitus patients at Buriram Hospital

Methods : This study was quasi-experimental research. The study subjects were 39 patients per groups. Of the diabetes mellitus patients in experimental group were received the nutrition education programs. Meanwhile, the control group were diabetic patients were received general education programs. And both groups were has knowledge evaluation about food consumption, food consumption behavior, and blood sugar test before and after received the programs. The period of this research was 8 weeks. The statistical analysis were used to compared the different of both groups were paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test. The statistically significant was set at p < 0.05.

Results : After diabetes mellitus patients were received the nutrition education programs were found out that this programs increases the knowledge of food consumption with statistically significant  (p-value=0.003) and blood sugar were decreases. The comparisons of blood sugar between two groups were statistically non-significant (p = 0.931) and after experimental were found that food consumption behavior of both groups were statistically non-significant (p = 0.051).

Conclusion : this study revealed that the nutritional education programs for diabetes mellituspromote, add more activities, and have long time for programs using and to make the outcome of the study more clear and verify ours study finding.  

Keyword : nutrition education, food consumption, diabetes mellitus