Awareness and Education in Diabetes Type 2 Affected People

Running head: EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
AWARENESS AND EDUCATION IN DIABETES TYPE 2 AFFECTED PEOPLE
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1EVIDENCE BASED NURISNG RESEARCH
Introduction
Over the past few decades, people are becoming aware regarding their health and are
focusing on their health literacy so that staying healthy and maintaining wellbeing become
easier. Diabetes is one of the leading cause of death all around the world and there are more than
422 million people throughout the globe affected with diabetes type 2 (Ma & Chan, 2013). This
assignment will be forming a PICO question regarding the diabetes education in acute care
patients and will compare the benefit with patient who do not receive such literacy. Further will
provide a research synopsis and financial implication for implementation of this system.
PICO
The PICO question for this review assignment is: Among the newly diagnosed patients
who are discharged from acute care with type 2 diabetes, does enhanced nursing practice with
teaching the information, educating patients regarding nutrition and exercise helps the patient.
Moreover, medication and insulin therapy with regular check up to control the diabetes yields
better result compared to patients with no health literacy and not ensuing the suggested practices
to regulate diabetes.
Journal article critique
While discussing the effectiveness of diabetes related education, the research of the
Nazar et al., (2015) conducted in the context of United Kingdom should be mentioned. The
researchers conducted research to understand the prevalence of diabetes type 2 according to age
and gender in UK and found that within the 90% population who are affected with diabetes type
2, are more than 60 years of age. Therefore, the health education regarding diabetes is very poor