OUTCOMES OF DIABETES EDUCATION OF PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS IN MONGOLIA

Objective of this article is to evaluate short term outcomes of diabetes education in patients Type 2 diabetes. The fol-lowing methods were used: the cross sectional and cohort survey was conducted in Diabetes center of Ulaanbaatar. This study subjects were 196 patients with T2DM aged 23-64 years old who were referred within, as patients included only the ones who met inclusion criteria and agreed with informed consent. Patient’s diabetes psychosocial status was assessed by the internationally accepted questionnaire. We collected anthropometric and metabolic measurement according by 6 months follow-ups. The study was conducted by principal investigator obtained from the Medical eth-ics committee of the Ministry of Health, Mongolia. Each participant gave written informed consent and study protocol was approved. Statistical analysis was performed with the SPSS16 software. The result are following: there were a total 196 subjects men 43,8 % women 56,2 %. The mean age of the study subjects was 49,4 ± 8,9 years. Educated groups participants attended a structured education program. The body fat percent and HbA1C level was at the base-line 10.1 ± 1.42 , and 6 months 8,5 ± 1.42 (p < 0.0001) significantly different between educated and non-educated groups during the follow-ups. As a result, we concluded that the anthropometric, metabolic, psychological measure-ment are significantly different between educated and non-educated groups during the 6 months follow-ups.