Evidence Based Nursing Research: Diabetes Type 2 Awareness & Education

This assignment explores the impact of health literacy and diabetes education on patients with type 2 diabetes. It presents a PICO question focusing on the benefits of enhanced nursing practice, nutrition education, exercise guidance, medication management, and regular check-ups for newly diagnosed patients discharged from acute care, compared to those without such interventions. The assignment includes a critique of research articles that highlight the prevalence of diabetes type 2, the lack of awareness among patients, and the effectiveness of knowledge and positive attitudes in controlling the disease. It also discusses the financial implications of diabetes-related education, citing the significant healthcare costs associated with unaware diabetic patients. Ultimately, the assignment emphasizes the importance of health literacy and education in managing diabetes, improving patient outcomes, and reducing the financial burden on healthcare systems. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources for students.

Running head: EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
AWARENESS AND EDUCATION IN DIABETES TYPE 2 AFFECTED PEOPLE
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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

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among them. Hence, it is prevailing in the society. Another research conducted by Al-Maskari et
al., (2013), determined the effectiveness of knowledge and attitude of patient in controlling
diabetes. The researchers found that within the sample size of 575 students, more than 31%
patients had poor knowledge regarding the diabetes and 72% had negative thoughts regarding
their disease condition. It determined the less effective awareness in the society regarding
diabetes as people were not aware regarding their diet, attitude and preventable measures
regarding the diabetes (Al-Maskari et al., 2013). Further in this study, it was also observed,
people who had positive attitude and were aware regarding the facts of diabetes, was able to
control it without any major issue.
Financial implications for health system
The financial implication for diabetes related education within society can be understood
from the statistics of the United States. The states spent more than $245 billion dollar in the year
2012, and it is estimated to grow up to 500 billion by the end of 2020 (Zheng, He & Congdon,
2012). The higher number of unaware diabetic patients are the primary reason for the increasing
diabetic severity in the states. Hence, to create a health awareness in the society, those diabetic
patient should be provided with education and awareness regarding diabetes. So that the literacy
level of the people can be increased (Guariguata et al., 2014).
Conclusion
This assignment dealt with comparison of health literacy and illiteracy and effect of those
on people with diabetes type 2. For this purpose several research articles were reviewed to
understand the effectiveness of education in patients and it was found that education related to
diabetes helped them to control the diabetes and maintain a positive view regarding their disease.

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Further the financial implication also reported that financially health illiteracy harms a complete
nation as maximum of the finance is involved in healthcare treatment.
References
Al-Maskari, F., El-Sadig, M., Al-Kaabi, J. M., Afandi, B., Nagelkerke, N., & Yeatts, K. B.
(2013). Knowledge, attitude and practices of diabetic patients in the United Arab
Emirates. PloS one, 8(1), e52857.
Guariguata, L., Whiting, D. R., Hambleton, I., Beagley, J., Linnenkamp, U., & Shaw, J. E.
(2014). Global estimates of diabetes prevalence for 2013 and projections for
2035. Diabetes research and clinical practice, 103(2), 137-149.
Ma, R. C., & Chan, J. C. (2013). Type 2 diabetes in East Asians: similarities and differences with
populations in Europe and the United States. Annals of the New York Academy of
Sciences, 1281(1), 64-91.
Nazar, C. M. J., Bojerenu, M. M., Safdar, M., & Marwat, J. (2016). Effectiveness of diabetes
education and awareness of diabetes mellitus in combating diabetes in the United
Kigdom; a literature review. Journal of nephropharmacology, 5(2), 110.
Zheng, Y., He, M., & Congdon, N. (2012). The worldwide epidemic of diabetic
retinopathy. Indian journal of ophthalmology, 60(5), 428.