AWARENESS AND ADHERENCE TO SELF CARE ACTIVITIES OF TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENTS ATTENDING DIABETIC CLINICS AT TWO TERTIARY HOSPITALS IN IMO STATE

📄 Project Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic progressive metabolic disorder characterized by high blood glucose `mainly due to absolute or relative lack of a hormone known as insulin (Shrivastava and Ramasamy, 2013). The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2012) defined it as a group of diseases characterized by high blood glucose. Diabetes mellitus is a systemic disease that is chronic and severe. The disease occurs when the body cannot use the insulin it produces effectively or when the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin (World Health Organization (WHO, 2009). Other cardinal symptoms of diabetes mellitus include excessive thirst, excessive urination and excessive hunger. Death rates for heart diseases and the risk of stroke are about 2 to 4 times higher among adults with diabetes mellitus than among those without diabetes (CDC, 2011). The disease is difficult to detect as some people do not have any symptoms or the symptom develop slowly. The symptoms that occur are increase...