Baquedano IR

Barreto TCPP

Bertoldi AD

Boas Gomes-Villas LC

Earnshaw VA

Faria HTG

Gomides DS

Imazu MFM

Lopez SG

Moraes SA

Oliveira KCS

Pereira DA

Rodrigues FFL

Shrivastava SR

Strock ES

Sweileh WM

Torres HC

Escola Anna Nery

Abstract  Objective: To evaluate the knowledge and attitude of patients with diabetes mellitus in Primary Health Care and associated factors.  Methods: Cross-sectional, quantitative and analytical study with 353 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Family Health Strategy units. The Knowledge and Psychological Attitudes Questionnaires were used for data collection, as well as a script with sociodemographic, economic and clinical data.  Results: The majority of the population was female (73.1%), aged more than 50 years (81.5%), diagnosed for more than five years (54.9%) and with a per capita income of up to half a minimum wage (59.3%). The scores of knowledge and attitude were low. Age (p = 0.001) and level of education (p = 0.002) were variables associated with knowledge about diabetes mellitus.  Conclusion: Users had a low level of knowledge about diabetes, indicating an unsatisfactory result in self-care and mainly a negative attitude towards coping with this disease.</jats:p

Suelen Cordeiro Assunção

Alisson Pereira Fonseca

Marise Fagundes Silveira

Antônio Prates Caldeira

Lucinéia de Pinho

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