Diabetic foot complications
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https://doi.org/10.14528/snr.2018.52.3.185Keywords:
foot care, screening tests, complications, leg amputationAbstract
Introduction: Diabetic foot is a group of syndromes in which neuropathy, ischemia and infection lead to the destruction of tissue, resulting in morbidity and sometimes amputation. The purpose of this paper was to establish and investigate the frequency of diabetic foot in patients with diabetes.
Methods: Mixed methods research was used in the study. The data collection technique was a questionnaire distributed to 60 patients with diabetes and a partially structured interview with two nurses working in a diabetes clinic. Quantitative data were analysed with descriptive and bivariate statistics. Qualitative data were analysed using content analysis.
Results: We have found that leg amputation is not a common complication of a diabetic foot (U = 4.4, p = 0.217), and that it cannot be claimed that the incidence of a diabetic foot is more common in men than in women (U = 0.6, p = 0.417), and that the patients are well educated about diabetic foot care and proper footwear.
Discussion and conclusion: What matters most in diabetic foot health education for patients, is that the patients are educated about diabetic foot verbally and in writing. Most often diabetic foot affects the patient’s quality of life. This research could be followed by using a higher number of patients.
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