False beliefs about causation of Diabetes Mellitus among adults in Urban Pondicherry - A cross sectional study.
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: Misconceptions about Diabetes is a hurdle in effective prevention and control, specifically in India. Objectives: 1. To assess the false beliefs about causation of Diabetes Mellitus.2. To assess the socio-demographicfactors associated with false beliefs about causation of Diabetes Mellitus. Material and Methods: Present crosssectional study was conducted among 406 subjects at peripheral health centre of a tertiary teaching hospital inPondicherry during June-July2011. Information related to socio-demographic profile, diabetes status and misconceptionsabout causation of diabetes mellitus was obtained. For data entry and analysis MS-excel and Epi-Info software wereused. Results: Total 406 adult patients were interviewed. Total 25.9% patients attending to health centre were diabetic.Among the nine selected misconceptions, commonest was “Diabetes occurs only in old age” (59.4%) followed by themisbelief “Diabetes is mainly an inherited disease”. The false belief “Diabetes occurs only in old age”, was significantlymore common among men (65.6%) compared to women (55.1%). Religion showed significant association with most ofthe misconceptions. Education was found to be significantly associated with only two of the misconceptions. There wereno significant differences regarding misconceptions between Diabetics and non-diabetics. Conclusion: The commonmisconceptions among the subjects were of occurrence of diabetes only in old age, consuming more sugar directly leadsto causation of diabetes and diabetes is mainly an inherited disease. The results of our study suggested that people arehaving less awareness about the disease.
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Sachin Bhaskar Palve, Rajkumar Patil, Jayarama chandran, Nasrin Nisha A
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