Fragmentação do conhecimento dos pacientes diabéticos acerca de sua doença na área de abrangência da Equipe de Saúde da Família Heliodora Feliz do município de Heliodora - Minas Gerais

Abstract

The comprehensive care to patients with diabetes and their families has been a challenge for the health team. In order to deal with it, as with any chronic disease, we should consider coming up with a Patient care plane, involving patients, families and health professionals, in a way that, by adding efforts, it will promote health education of this triad and greater autonomy to the patient in their self-care. Health education is an essential part of the treatment of diabetic patients, since the knowledge about the disease is the basis for the development of actions for self-care. The highest level of knowledge about the disease and its complications is related to improved quality of life, reduction of the hypoglycemic attacks, fewer hospital admissions, improved metabolic control and greater acceptance of the disease. Thus, this work presents a proposal for diabetes education through an intervention project that aims to turn the fragmentation of knowledge of diabetic patients about their biological and psychosocial reality, real knowledge for independent living. This intervention project is justified by the negative impact that defragmentation of knowledge about diabetes mellitus causes on the condition itself and the life of the individual