effect of educational programs on the knowledge, attitude, and practice of foot care in patients with diabetes

Background: among the complications of diabetes, foot problems are increasing due to nonconformity of preventive issues.objectives: the current study aimed to evaluate the effect of an educational intervention on knowledge, attitude and practice of foot care among the patients with type 2 diabetes.patients and methods: in this randomized controlled clinical trial, 69 patients aged 30-60 years who were referred to an iranian diabetes clinic were randomly selected and divided into two groups, intervention and control. the control group just received the routine training of the center. a three week educational program was held for the intervention group. data were collected before and after the intervention by a researcher-made questionnaire and analyzed with spss version 19 to apply dependent and independent t-tests and chi-square test.results: there was insignificant difference between the two groups in terms of demographic variables and the mean scores of other assessed variables before the intervention (p > 0.05). after the intervention a significant increase was observed in the mean scores of knowledge, attitudes, and foot care practice of the intervention group compared to those of the control group (p < 0.05).conclusions: the educational program was effective on the foot care performance of the patients with diabetes.