The study of the perception of diabetes mellitus among the people of Petaling Jaya in Malaysia
Diabetes mellitus is a worldwide medical problem with lack of knowledge, high costs, and maximum cause of mortality. The assessment of knowledge is very important about diabetes mellitus and its causes, symptoms, complications, risk factors among the general population in Petaling Jaya due t...
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Universidad Técnica de Manabí (UTM)
2022
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/100734/7/100734_The%20study%20of%20the%20perception%20of%20diabetes%20mellitus.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/100734/ https://sciencescholar.us/journal/index.php/ijhs/article/view/4877/954 |
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| Summary: | Diabetes mellitus is a worldwide medical problem with lack
of knowledge, high costs, and maximum cause of mortality. The
assessment of knowledge is very important about diabetes mellitus
and its causes, symptoms, complications, risk factors among the
general population in Petaling Jaya due to gradual increase in
diabetes and its complications among patients. Therefore, this study
was conducted to analyze the perception of diabetes mellitus among
the people residing in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. This is
descriptive cross-sectional study which included 400 samples of
various ages, sexes, ethnicities, income levels, education levels and
family history of diabetic patients from ten policlinics in Petaling Jaya,
Malaysia. A validated questionnaire with five elements was used for
this study. The collected data from the respective respondents were
analyzed through SPSS software. SPSS has been used to analyse the
demographic profile of the respondents, as well as perform exploratory
factor analysis and multiple regression analysis. The study's findings indicated that general knowledge of diabetes mellitus, knowledge of
risk factors of diabetes, knowledge of symptom of diabetes mellitus,
knowledge of complications of diabetes mellitus are factors that
significantly affect perception of diabetes mellitus among the people
residing in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. |
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