Application of peer education in guiding community diabetic patients to adopt diet therapy using food exchange method
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1672-7088.2009.07.083
- VernacularTitle:应用同伴教育法指导社区糖尿病患者采用食品交换份法行饮食治疗的临床观察
- Author:
Lan DING
;
Jing DING
;
Lin WU
;
Jing LI
;
Shihua LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Peer education;
2 type diabete mellitus;
Food exchange method;
Community health service
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing
2009;25(20):78-80
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To use peer education to guide community diabetic patients to adopt diet therapy using food exchange method in order to explore effective method for diet therapy of diabetes mellitus. Meth-ods 91 diabetic patients were selected using simple sampling method and randomly divided into the peer ed-ucation(45 cases) and the common education group(46 cases), the two groups adopted food exchange method for diet therapy for 1 year. The blood glucose, blood lipid, glycosylated hemoglobin and body weight index were compared between the two groups using t test. Results The blood glucose, blood lipid, glycosylated hemoglobin and body weight index all decreased in the two groups after intervention, but the the decreased de-gree in the peer education group was more obvious. The fasting blood glucose, 2 hour postprandial blood glu-cose, glycosylated hemoglobin, triglyceride, low-donordensity lipid protein and body weight index in the peer education were lower thanthose of the common education group, but HDL-C was higher. Conclusions Peer education is more effective in health education of food exchange method.
