Diseño de estrategia educativa sobre factores relacionados con la falta de adherencia terapéutica en pacientes diabéticos tipo 2 en tres consultorios del Centro de Salud Guasmo Norte año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) is considered today a worldwide epidemic due to its high prevalence. In Ecuador, DM 2 was the leading cause of mortality for 2013, corresponding to 4695 deaths, 7.44% of the annual total. Factors that influence poor adherence to treatment in the long term give low health results and higher health costs, while good therapeutic adherence increases the quality of life of people with DM2. Method: observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study. A total of 101 patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 2 were included in three clinics of the Guasmo Norte health center, which attended from january to july 2018. The study variable were age, sex, school level, occupation, ethnicity, marital status, level of knowledge about diabetes mellitus type 2. The information was obtained by self-administered questionnaire. Results: the level of knowledge of diabetic patients about their disease was (35.8%) they do not know and (61.20) if they know, about the knowledge of the complications there was one (11.7%) known and the ( 88.3%) does not know about the benefits of physical exercise (21.4%) knows and (78.6%) does not know, in relation to pharmacological treatment the (31.1%) knows, while the ( 68.9%) does not know, for the components of the educational strategy the talks were relevant, in the health center, once a week, in the morning. Conclusions: There is little knowledge about the complications, benefits of physical exercises and pharmacological treatment, so an educational strategy was developed to modify these factors.