Educational Program Toward Parents Practices of Diabetic Children Care

Abstract

Diabetic Type I is a metabolic disorder which occur mostly in children, it is distinguished by hyperglycemia due to beta cell of pancreas stopping from insulin secretion which has function in transport of glucose to cells, mostly occur result of viruses, genetic and autoimmune factors and causes many body complications. The Study Objectives: are to identify parent's practices towards diabetic children and to find-out the relationship between parent's practices and socio-demographic characteristic. Material And Method: A quasi experimental study is applied to identify effectiveness of the educational program of parents practices toward your diabetic children care in the diabetic and endocrine center of Al-Najaf province by use the method of pretest/ posttest 1 then posttest 2 by application it on both Experimental and Non-experimental groups for period of 28. July 2024 until 6. October 2024. Study Results: Finding revealed that parents practices level of study sample altered significantly (P<0.05), where it’s in pretest the practices mean was (1.407) then became in post-test one (2.087) and in post-test two the mean is (2.10), while the parents practices in control group stayed the same without any change. the research explained that the higher percentage of study group in regarding disease period in both group was with disease period (≤ 1–3) years. the parents practices in experimental study improved the application finding of educational program this indicated that the applied educational program was effective interventional approach to improve targeted parents practices. Also finding refer to a scientific association among parent practices about diabetic children care and demographic data in age, disease period, father educational and mothers educational levels.