The importance of patients knowledge and their families about the risk, symptoms, treatment and prevention of type 2 diabetes.
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is the most common metabolic disease in the world. There is very important influence of patients knowledge and their families knowledge about type 2 diabetes to the risk reduction, treatment and prevention of disease. The aim: The aim of the research was to estimate the connection between the knowledge of patients and their families about the risk factors, symptoms, treatment and prevention of type 2 diabetes and occurrence of diabetes. Participians and methods: The study was conducted by randomly interviewing 102 volunteers in Tuzla. The main instrument of the research was self-designed questionnaire on risk, symptoms and the treatment of diabetes. We measured values of glucose in blood for all volunteers. Results: The results of this study suggest that patients and their family members are not informed enough about the risks, symptoms and treatment of type 2 diabetes. Conclusion: There was a significant connection between the number of correct answers with the knowledge of diabetes.