Analysis of the Level of Knowledge on the Diet in Patient Diabetic Geriatrics

Abstract

Jesus Cuellar Alvarez, Alejandro Delgado Perez and Marilin Machado Aguero

Background: the diabetic in bigger adults is necessary to prevent illness from the sciences of the health.

Objective: to analyze of the level of knowledge on the diet in patient diabetic geriatrics. Methods: was carried out a study decriptivo, restrospective, with a sample composed by 18 old patients, belonging of the Policlinic “José Ramón León Acosta. It gathers it of the data was carried out through the empiric method as the questionnaire and for the analysis of the data the statistical calculation was used.

Results: the state of individual health of this group prevailed as for knowledge that will allow them to modify its lifestyle and in turn an aging very happened to the minimum of limitations.

Conclusions: the difficulties are focused in the sistematic of the development psicosocial and to prevent factors normative for the sanitary and social structure in bigger adults.

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