Abstract:

Background: Diabetic complication can be reduced by maintaining good glycaemic control. The main goal in diabetic management is to achieve good glycaemic control and to reduce hospital admission due to diabetic complication. However, majority of patients do not achieve and thus the identification of associated factors is important.

Methods: Hospital based cross sectional study was conduct which included population sample of 187 type 2 diabetic patients. Data was collected by interviewing patients during hospital visits and record the measured fasting blood glucose level at the time of interview and reviewing the last two to three month fasting blood glucose results from their chart.

Results: Patients had the mean age of 57.9 ± 11.467 years, 62.6% were females. Out of 187 patients, 67.4% had FBG ≥ 7.2 mmoI/L indicating high proportion of poor glycaemic control. High proportion (89.7%) of poor glycaemic control among patients with low medication adherence. Significantly high proportion of poor glycaemic control (78.2%) was observed in patients who failed to follow the recommended healthful eating plan, (p=0.042).

Discussion: High proportion (67.4%) of poor glycaemic control to the population, probably may be due to the low life standard to most of type 2 diabetic patients who failed to adhere on the recommended eating plan and diabetic medication for those who were not health insured.

Conclusion: This study reveals that, the proportion of diabetic patients achieving good glycaemic control was low, following the recommended eating plan and medication adherence were factors associated with good glycaemic control.