Author(s)

Feng Yu, Liu Ruian, Xu Qiuying

Corresponding Author

Liu Ruian

Abstract

Objective: the purpose of this article is to analyze the influence of strengthen health education to the rural Left-behind elderly patients with type 2 diabetes in Guangyuan city of Sichuan province. Methods: 240 patients in Guangyuan city of Sichuan province were randomly divided into the intervention group and the control group (n = 120). using strengthen health education to the Intervention group, and the control group give the Regular health education, after 6 months we evaluated the 2 groups of patients the changing of the self-management behavior, and self-management efficiency. Results: the intervention group patients self-management efficiency compared with the control group, 20 entries has 13 items with statistical difference (P < 0.05), 7 items no statistical difference (P > 0.05); Self-management behavior compared with the control group there are 8 items have statistical significance (P < 0.05), there are 4 items has no statistical significance (P > 0.05), total score has significant difference (P < 0.000). Conclusion: Then strengthen health education, can effectively improve the self-management effectiveness and self-management behavior of rural left-behind elderly patients with type 2 diabetes, and raised the patients compliance, improved the quality of their life.

Keywords

Rural left-behind elderly; type 2 diabetes; Self-management; health education