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Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2019, Pages 288 - 293

Impact of Knowledge and Practice on Fasting Blood Glucose Levels among Diabetics During Ramadan Fasting

Authors
Mohammed Al-Hariri1, *, Soban Khan2, Walid Albaker3, Waleed Al Malik4
1Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2Department of Clinical Affairs, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
3Department of Internal medicine, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
4Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
*Corresponding author. Email: mohd_alhariri@yahoo.com
Corresponding Author
Mohammed Al-Hariri
Received 2 February 2019, Accepted 19 August 2019, Available Online 23 September 2019.
DOI
10.2991/jegh.k.190824.001How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Knowledge; practice; Ramadan; diabetes mellitus; blood; glucose
Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of knowledge and practice on the fasting blood glucose of diabetic patients during the month of Ramadan. The simple random sampling technique was used to calculate sample size and the computed sample size was 112. Participants were recruited from the diabetic outpatient clinics at King Fahad Hospital of the University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The participants included male and female adults with either type 1 or 2 diabetes, aged 15–70 years. Children, pregnant women, and those who were unable to complete at least 3 weeks of fasting during the study period were excluded from the study. Fasting blood glucose reading of the participants was extracted during Ramadan and in Shawwal (after 30 days) and a first-visit questionnaire related to the knowledge and practice was provided to them. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (version 22) was used for data entry and analysis. A two way ANOVA test, two independent sample t-tests and Chi-square test were used to compare between the groups. A p-value at 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The study found that fasting blood glucose of a participant during the holy month of Ramadan (144.2) was statistically significant with p-value 0.0003 as compared with after Ramadan (178.5). Moreover, it was found that as the level of knowledge (poor, average, good) improved, the fasting blood glucose goes down with p-values 0.036 and 0.037. Our results revealed that fasting during Ramadan significantly decreases blood glucose. The overall level of knowledge and practice concerning diabetes among the participants studied during the month Ramadan is average.

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Journal
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Volume-Issue
9 - 4
Pages
288 - 293
Publication Date
2019/09/23
ISSN (Online)
2210-6014
ISSN (Print)
2210-6006
DOI
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© 2019 Atlantis Press International B.V.
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