Predictors of foot care behaviours in patients with diabetes in Turkey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The management of diabetic foot complications is challenging, time-consuming and costly. Such complications frequently recur, and the feet of individuals with diabetes can be easily infected. The variables that predict foot care behaviours must be identified to improve foot care attitudes and behaviours. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the predictors of foot care behaviours in individuals with diabetes and the role of these variables.

Methods

This descriptive and analytic study was carried out between July 2015 and July 2016, and 368 outpatients with diabetes from a public hospital in Turkey were included. The participants had no communication, psychiatric or neurological problems and had been diagnosed with diabetes for at least 1 year. Foot care behaviour was

SUBMITTER: Yıldırım Usta Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6369832 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature