Primary prevention activities of the diabetic foot and self-care activities in patients with type 2 diabetes in the Hospital II Clínica Geriátrica San Isidro Labrador, Essalud

• Autores: Mesares Damiano, Gloria Rosa, Miranda Limachi, Keila Ester
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Peruana Unión
• Repositorio: Revista UPEU - Revista Científica de Ciencias de la Salud
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.revistas.upeu.edu.pe:article/220
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.upeu.edu.pe/index.php/RCCS/article/view/220
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Diabetes, prevention, first aid, self-care, diabetic foot. (Source: MeSH NLM); Diabetes; prevención; enfermería; autocuidados; pie diabético. (Fuente: DeCS BIREME)

Objetives: To identify which primary prevention of diabetic foot hits the nurse and what self-careactivities performed by the patient with type 2 diabetes. Materials and Methods: The type of studyis descriptive and cross-sectional data collection survey was applied to nurses and diabetic patientsover 18 years. Results: The results show that 83.6% of nurses performed the assessment of thefoot, provides education 90.9%. 72.7% provide foot self-care techniques. Recommended 92.7%quit smoking and 98.2% reported the importance of attending to his control. With regard to self-carepractices performed by the patients, 46.4% have a moderate level of self-care, 69.6% check their feet,42.9% did not check the inside of their shoes, 60% no apply moisturizers, 44.6% continues to add sugarto their drinks, 45.5% of overweight patients, including both sexes. Conclusions: Most of nurses takealmost all activities of primary prevention of diabetic foot highlighting an important activity assessmentof the foot. Furthermore, there is a regular practice of self-performed by the patient, especially in thedaily observation of the foot.