Evaluation and comparison of the effect of two educational methods of self-empowerment training on the quality of life in diabetic patients visiting the diabetes clinic of urmia of medical sciences

Background and objective: Diabetes mellitus is one of the common chronic diseases with many complications and one of the serious challenges for the health system that affects on the quality of patient's life. Training patient is one of the oldest and best ways to control these complications. Traditional and modern education methods have shown different results on the quality of life of these patients which is remarkable. The present study was conducted aimed to compare the effect of self-empowerment training through educational package and workshop on the effect of quality of diabetic patients' life who visit the Diabetes Clinic in the Urmia University of Medical Sciences in 2013. Materials and methods: The present study is an experimental study with pretest-posttest which was carried out on 40 individuals of diabetic patients visiting the Diabetes Clinic in the Urmia University of Medical Sciences. The research samples were randomly assigned to the training workshop and training package. A two-part tool was used to collect data which included demographic information and the questionnaire of life quality of diabetic patients. After collecting data and coding them in the statistic software of SPSS (ver. 16), data were analyzed using Chi-square, U-Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon statistical tests.Results: The mean scores of life quality of research samples in the intervention group with training workshop were 40.25±7.69 and 46.00±7.56 before and after training, respectively and 48.5±5.56 and 39.9±9.00 in the intervention group with training package, respectively. The research findings showed no significant difference in the scores of life quality between two intended groups before and after intervention (P: 0.570), but a significant difference was found before and after intervention (inter-group) in the scores of life quality in each group (P<0.0001).Discussion and conclusion: The present study showed that the indirect educational method such as using the training packages is useful and effective in increasing the life quality score as well as the direct educational method such as training workshop and in cases where it is not possible to hold workshops for the patients with diabetes, it can be used as an effective educational method for improving the quality of life in diabetic patients

Spatiotemporal analysis of brucellosis incidence in Iran from 2011 to 2014 using GIS

Objective: To investigate the distribution and trends associated with brucellosis incidence rates in Iran from 2011 to 2014