The effect of an educational program on the knowledge and practices of diabetic patients regarding sharps waste disposal at home.

ABSTRACT: The disposal of sharp waste generated at home by diabetic patients poses a major public health problem. This study evaluated an educational program designed to improve patients' knowledge and practices around sharps disposal. A non-equivalent quasi-experimental study was performed at a main diabetic center in Egypt on 100 participants divided into intervention and non-intervention groups. The effect of the interventional program was tested by the evaluation of the improvement in participants' knowledge and practice after two and four months of the program. Initially, there were no differences in knowledge or practice scores between the groups. After the implementation of the program, there was a noticeable difference in subjects' knowledge levels and scores between the two groups, with the

SUBMITTER: Soliman HMH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11666584 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature