Introduction

Over the past few decades, people are becoming aware regarding their health and are focusing on their health literacy so that staying healthy and maintaining wellbeing become easier. Diabetes is one of the leading cause of death all around the world and there are more than 422 million people throughout the globe affected with diabetes type 2 (Ma & Chan, 2013). This assignment will be forming a PICO question regarding the diabetes education in acute care patients and will compare the benefit with patient who do not receive such literacy. Further will provide a research synopsis and financial implication for implementation of this system.

PICO

The PICO question for this review assignment is: Among the newly diagnosed patients who are discharged from acute care with type 2 diabetes, does enhanced nursing practice with teaching the information, educating patients regarding nutrition and exercise helps the patient. Moreover, medication and insulin therapy with regular check up to control the diabetes yields better result compared to patients with no health literacy and not ensuing the suggested practices to regulate diabetes.

Journal article critique

While discussing the effectiveness of diabetes related education, the research of the Nazar et al., (2015) conducted in the context of United Kingdom should be mentioned. The researchers conducted research to understand the prevalence of diabetes type 2 according to age and gender in UK and found that within the 90% population who are affected with diabetes type 2, are more than 60 years of age. Therefore, the health education regarding diabetes is very poor among them. Hence, it is prevailing in the society. Another research conducted by Al-Maskari et al., (2013), determined the effectiveness of knowledge and attitude of patient in controlling diabetes. The researchers found that within the sample size of 575 students, more than 31% patients had poor knowledge regarding the diabetes and 72% had negative thoughts regarding their disease condition. It determined the less effective awareness in the society regarding diabetes as people were not aware regarding their diet, attitude and preventable measures regarding the diabetes (Al-Maskari et al., 2013). Further in this study, it was also observed, people who had positive attitude and were aware regarding the facts of diabetes, was able to control it without any major issue.

Financial implications for health system

The financial implication for diabetes related education within society can be understood from the statistics of the United States. The states spent more than $245 billion dollar in the year 2012, and it is estimated to grow up to 500 billion by the end of 2020 (Zheng, He & Congdon, 2012). The higher number of unaware diabetic patients are the primary reason for the increasing diabetic severity in the states. Hence, to create a health awareness in the society, those diabetic patient should be provided with education and awareness regarding diabetes. So that the literacy level of the people can be increased (Guariguata et al., 2014).

Conclusion

This assignment dealt with comparison of health literacy and illiteracy and effect of those on people with diabetes type 2. For this purpose several research articles were reviewed to understand the effectiveness of education in patients and it was found that education related to diabetes helped them to control the diabetes and maintain a positive view regarding their disease. Further the financial implication also reported that financially health illiteracy harms a complete nation as maximum of the finance is involved in healthcare treatment.

References

Al-Maskari, F., El-Sadig, M., Al-Kaabi, J. M., Afandi, B., Nagelkerke, N., & Yeatts, K. B. (2013). Knowledge, attitude and practices of diabetic patients in the United Arab Emirates. PloS one, 8(1), e52857.

Guariguata, L., Whiting, D. R., Hambleton, I., Beagley, J., Linnenkamp, U., & Shaw, J. E. (2014). Global estimates of diabetes prevalence for 2013 and projections for 2035. Diabetes research and clinical practice, 103(2), 137-149.

Ma, R. C., & Chan, J. C. (2013). Type 2 diabetes in East Asians: similarities and differences with populations in Europe and the United States. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1281(1), 64-91.

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Zheng, Y., He, M., & Congdon, N. (2012). The worldwide epidemic of diabetic retinopathy. Indian journal of ophthalmology, 60(5), 428.