Factors Influencing Successful Training and Consulting of Patients with Diabetes

Abstract

Relevance of the study: diabetes training is a very important part of improving patients ’quality of life. The information provided during the training and consultations helps to avoid complications of diabetes and ensures a smaller number of meetings with doctors. It is a very rapidly expanding. disease that only increases the number of patients each year and does not decrease. In order to ensure better quality of training and counseling for patients with diabetes, it is necessary to provide the necessary information, training, remembering the newly acquired knowledge and skills that will help to manage the disease and the complications that have arisen. Patient training should be an integral part of ongoing disease care. The patient needs to have a good understanding of their disease and manage it, because only with proper supervision, can the patient be expected to have fewer complications. Problem of the study: what factors would affect successful patient training and consultations in diabetis? Aim of the study: to identify the factors influencing the successful training and consulting of patients with diabetes. Tasks of bachelor`s thesis: to describe the concept of diabetes mellitus, its symptoms, risk factors, complications, and epidemiology; to reveal a theoretical training model for diabetis patients; to distinguish successful, patient with diabetes, training and consultations factors; to reveal barriers for successful patient training and consultations. Research methology: the type of quantitative research was chosen for the research, the respondents were provided with an anonymous questionnaire created by the author. Patients with type 1, type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes were selected for the study.5 Results of the study: in the survey participated respondents with type 1 diabetes (30,77%), type 2 diabetes (46,15%) and gestational diabetes (23,08%). Respondents with type 2 diabetes (90%) and gestational diabetes (100%) mainly participated in group trainings. According to the respondents, the most important things during group training are motivation, nurse - diabetologist - teacher accruing knowlegde and experience, psychological preparation, relatives involvement, current knowlegde about disease and pre – preparation. Also, the biggest barriers to diabetes successful training and consulting, are non-absorption of knowledge gained, patient refusal to participate in training and consulting, refusal to get in to the hospital, absence of health insurance, lack of the patient motivation, lack of competence of nurse - diabetologist – teacher. Conclusions: from the answers provided by the respondents it can be concluded that successful patient training and consulting requires motivation, enthusiasm of the respondents, participation of relatives, initiative, competence of the nurse - diabetologist - teacher, attention to problems, consultation of a psychologist.