TY - JOUR JF - IJME JO - Iranian Journal of Medical Education VL - 10 IS - 5 PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/2/01 TI - The effect of self care program education through group discussion method on knowledge and practice in diabetic adolescent girls referring to Iranian Diabetes Society TT - بررسی تأثیر آموزش برنامه خود مراقبتی به شیوه بحث گروهی بر دانش و عملکرد دختران نوجوان دیابتیک مراجعه کننده به انجمن دیابت ایران N2 - Introduction: Diabetes is a chronic illness which needs specific self care behaviors to the end of life. On the other hand, studies have shown that improvement in knowledge and practice of diabetic patients brings about improvement of metabolic status for which self care education specially with active method (active involvement of diabetic patients) is necessary. So, this study has been conducted to determine the effect of self care program with group discussion on knowledge and practice of diabetic adolescent girls referring to Iranian Diabetes Society. Methods: This research is a quasi experimental study conducted on 80 diabetic adolescent girls aged 15-19 (40 as experiment and 40 as control group) in Iranian Diabetes Society in 2008-2009. Self care program was designed after data had been collected in pre intervention stage by questionnaires of knowledge and practice as well as educational needs assessment in both groups, and then, self care program was administrated through 8 discussion sessions for experiment group. Finally, the same questionnaires were completed for experiment and control groups of diabetic adolescent girls once just after and one month after intervention again. The collected data were analyzed through SPSS 15 with statistical tests of X2, Independent Sample T test, Repeated Measures and Paired T test. Results: Results showed no significant differences between experiment and control groups in demographic characteristics(age, height, weight, father’s job etc.) through Independent Sample T test and X2 .In experiment group, there was a significant increase in scores of knowledge and practice compared to before, just after and one month after intervention (p0.05) and Independent T-test showed no significant difference in knowledge and practice between experiment and control groups before intervention(p>0.05). There was a significant difference in mean scores of knowledge and practice just after and one month after intervention between two groups of experiment and control shown by Independent T-test (p SP - 982 EP - 993 AU - shirazi, maryam AU - Anoosheh, monireh AU - Rajab, Assadollah AD - KW - Diabetes KW - adolescent girls KW - self care program KW - group discussion KW - knowledge KW - practice UR - http://ijme.mui.ac.ir/article-1-1483-en.html ER -