Dietary Routine among Diabetic Patients in West Bank
ˡ Marriam AmerAl-Tell ,
Batool Hashash,,Loa’i Al-Sayyed, Thabat Yassen , Mahdi Dwikat
ˡ Public health department,Faculty of medicine and health science , An Najah National university [email protected]
Research design and method: Quantitative, a cross-sectional, descriptive analytical study was conducted in primary health care centers (Hebron, Ramallah and Nablus).350 patients were randomly selected from September to November, 2015, utilizing questionnaire including five domains; about dietary routine after diabetes.
Results: the age of 32.9% of participants was more than 60 years and 91.7% of them have type 2 DM. Their dietary routine pattern mostly characterized by poor meals preparation (49.4% poor, 10.6% very poor). 33.7%, 17.4% have been evaluated as having poor and very poor family support respectively, Regarding to eating pattern just, 3.7% of participants have a very good eating pattern while 42.3% of them have poor eating pattern. The results also indicated that there was a significant relationship between last HbA1C results and eating pattern as p-value is (0.000< 0.05).in addition, there was a relationship between complications of DM and family support as the p-value (0.018< 0.05) and also represented there was a significant relationship between educational level and meal preparation as the p-value is (0.000< 0.05).