Cuidado de los pies: Conocimiento de los individuos con diabetes mellitus

Abstract

The aim of this research was to identify the knowledge of people with Diabetes Mellitus in relation to foot care, correlating the study time with the number of concordants responses, as well as, the time of diagnosis with the presence of chronic complications. It is analytical, exploratory and cross-sectional study, carried out with about 41 individuals with diabetes who attended an outpatient clinic of a city in Triangulo Mineiro. The results showed a deficit in knowledge about the feet care of this population, since the average score was 10.0 in the total of 15 questions. Education was not correlated with the level of knowledge of the practice. There was an association between the time of diagnosis and the presence of complications, where 70.0% of the sample had diabetes with complications for a period ≥ 10 years. Therefore, educational efforts to provide access to knowledge about foot care are essential to preventing this sickness.