Salmeen D Babelgaith1 
,
Mohd Baidi2,
Mohamed Al-Arifi1,
Saeed Alfadly3,
Syed Wajid1
For correspondence:- Salmeen Babelgaith Email: drsalmeen@yahoo.com Tel:+966557895570
Received: 29 September 2014 Revised: 9 January 2015 Published: 28 February 2015
Citation: Babelgaith SD, Baidi M, Al-Arifi M, Alfadly S, Wajid S. Effect of health care professionals’ continuing education programme on diabetic patients’ outcomes in Mukalla City, Yemen. Trop J Pharm Res 2015; 14(2):303-309 doi: 10.4314/tjpr.v14i2.16
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Purpose: To evaluate the impact of educational intervention by health care providers on clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetes patients in a Yemeni health facility.
Methods: A prospective, one-group and pre- and post-test design to assess the effects of health care providers’ education on clinical patient outcomes was undertaken. The study took place in Al-Noor Charity Clinic (ACC), Mukalla City, Yemen. The subjects of this study were type 2 diabetes patients who received health services at ACC and met the inclusion criteria. Patients’ diabetes-related clinical parameter assessed were fasting blood glucose, weight, blood pressure, and lipid profile, i.e., cholesterol, triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol and high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol) at baseline, i.e., before the intervention programme, and also at 6 months after the intervention.
Results: There was significant improvement in clinical outcomes: fasting blood sugar (p = 0.004), systolic blood pressure (p = 0.003) diastolic blood pressure (p = 0.05), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (p = 0.005) and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (p = 0.001), but total cholesterol (p = 0.33) weight (p = 0.404) and triglyceride (p = 0.056) did not improve.
Conclusion: Educational intervention of health care providers program does improve diabetic patients’ clinical outcomes.
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