Results
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DIABETES MELLITUS, DIABETES
Of the 14 health care personnel enrolled in health education intervention 10(71.43%) were physicians with median experience of 4.5 years (IQR 3–6.75) and 4 (28.57%) were non physicians with median experience of 27.5 years. The male and female ratio in health care personnel was equal with an mean age of 35.8 years (SD ± 9.4) years (Table Socio demographic profile of the Health care providersThe mean score of the physicians DR knowledge and awareness increased at post intervention (8.8 ± 1.32) as compared to pre intervention (6.4 ± 1.51) (Change in knowledge level of health care personnel at pre and post interventionProportion of referral to REMEH from Scheer in per and post intervention periodTotal of 71 patients with Diabetes Mellitus attended from intervention hospital (Scheer) during the study period from 1Referral cases from Scheer were further divided based on the experience and position of health care physicians. Total of 8 (80%) health care personnel had experience of less than or equal to 5 years and they referred a total of 8 (88.89%) and 44 (70.97%) patients from pre and post intervention period and rest of the patients were referred by physicians with > 5 years’ experience. Internal medicine doctors referred more, followed by medical officer and pediatricians but it was not statistically significant (Table Health care personnel experience and post associated with Referral From ScheerPosition/PostIn Pre-intervention period, 6 (66.67%) males and 3 (33.33%) females attended REMEH, whereas 24(38.71%) males and 38(61.29%) females attended REMEH at post intervention. The average age of pre intervention patients was 56.67 years (SD ± 17.30) while that of post intervention patients was 55.39 years (SD ± 12.51). Mean duration of diabetes in the pre intervention was 7.05 (SD ± 6.37) and post intervention was 5.12 (SD ± 5.80). Almost 66.67% patients had smoking habit in per intervention whereas post intervention was 48.39% patients. A total of 7 (77.78%) and 45 (72.78%) patients were a normal lipid profile. It was observed that basic and clinical characteristics were not significantly different in pre and post intervention group (Table Socio demographic and clinical profile of the patients attended at REMEHTable 