Effect of Physical Activity and Health Education Intervention on Glycemic Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients Attending Borno State Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri

Abstract

Abstract. This study assessed effect of physical activity and health education intervention on glycemic Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients attending Borno State Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri. To achieve this, two hypotheses were tested. Pre-test post-test research design was adopted for the study. The sampled population is forty (40) type 2 diabetics patients attending Borno State Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri. Availability sample procedure was used to select all respondents for the study. The participants completed a general information form included question on age, marital status, family history of the disease, duration of the disease, clinical characteristics, awareness of diabetic complications, taking oral diabetic among others. The researchers recorded the last reading for (glycated hemoglobin [HbA1c]) for each patient. Education intervention was conducted in type 2 diabetes mellitus samples for 8 weeks containing lectures, discussion and physical activity. At the meetings, they were recommended and gave the information about diabetes and its complications, proper diet, exercise every day at least 30 min such as bike, walking, and aerobic, taking education regularly as directed by the physician, self-monitoring patient’s blood sugar, diabetic foot care, and not smoking. Descriptive statistics of frequency count, percent, mean and standard deviation was used to described the respondent characteristic parameter while inferential statistics of The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to test the formulated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result shows that both physical activity and health education intervention have significant effect on glycated hemoglobin [HbA1c]) of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients (P<0.05). It was then recommended that medical practitioners should provide health education intervention programs that will increasing awareness among diabetes mellitus patients.

Keywords: Physical Activity, Health Education, Intervention, Glycemic Type 2 Diabetes, Mellitus Patients.