2021, Cilt 19, Sayı 2, Sayfa(lar) 159-164 |
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Oral Glucose Tolerance Test: who gives information and is it sufficient? |
Sibel Bilgili, Özge Fenercioğlu, Gizem Ercan, Giray Bozkaya |
Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi İzmir Bozyaka Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Biyokimya, İzmir, Türkiye |
Keywords: OGTT; diabetes mellitus; glucose |
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Purpose: Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is a very important procedure in diagnosing diabetes
mellitus. It is very crucial to perform OGTT according to the rules that must be taken into account in
preparation period of the test. Our aim was to determine the level of awareness and the source of
information among the patients about the OGTT procedure.
Materials and Methods: The 680 outpatients, who were sent to the laboratory for OGTT, were asked
to answer the questions reflecting the level of knowledge about OGTT. The data related to the answers
to the questions were presented as numbers and ratios. Statistical analysis was made by chi square test.
Results: Only 160 (23.5%) of patients declared that they have got information about OGTT. The source
of knowledge was mostly their clinicians 425 (62.5%) and the laboratory staff 255 (37.5%). According to
the declaration of patients that they got information or not there was a statistically significant difference
with the education level (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Although giving information to patients is the responsibility of the clinicians, the
laboratory staff should try to understand if the patients are well informed or not, when giving OGTT
appointment to the patients in order to complement insufficient information. |
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