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Level of knowledge and self-care practices in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a hospital in East Lima, 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-09-28) Pampa Tardio, Rebeca; Fernández Rengifo, Werther Fernando
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that destabilizes the individual's quality of life; The level of knowledge about the disease is discovered with the experiences lived, in the same way self-care practices are activities that one carries out to maintain, reinforce and/or recover one's well-being. Objective: “Determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and self-care in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a hospital in Lima Este, 2023.” Methodology: It is research with a hypothetical-deductive method, with a quantitative approach, of an applied type, with a non-experimental design. The research involved 80 patients with a medical diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus from a hospital in Eastern Lima in 2023. Two instruments were applied: level of knowledge developed by Amaya in 2017 with a Pearson coefficient validity of 0.85; and self-care practices developed by Tuyo in 2015 that was valid through the judgment of 3 experts. Conclusion: A significant, positive, and moderate relationship was found between the level of knowledge about self-care practices because the p value was 0.000 and the Rho Spearman value was 0.513*.