Self-care practices and associated factors among diabetes patients attending the outpatient department in Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia

What is it about?

The goal of diabetes care is reasonable metabolic control and prevention and delay of diabetes-related complications. Self-care is self-limited, voluntary, and outside professional and healthcare settings, such as regular exercise, adhering to a diabetes-friendly diet and planned dietary regimen, checking blood glucose levels, maintaining body weight, and taking prescribed medication.

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Why is it important?

This paper is pivotal to informing and designing diabetes self-management education and support, healthcare professional training, and integrating the role of diabetes self-care in higher health education curricula.