The Self-Care of the Skin in Adults With DT2

Friday, 26 July 2019

Milton Carlos Guevara-Valtier, EdD, MSN, BN1
Juana Mercedes Gutierrez Valverde, DSN, MSN, BN, RN2
Gabino Ramos, MSNS, BN3
Geu Salome Mendoza-Catalan, DSN, MSN, BN, RN1
Esther C. Gallegos, PhD, FAAN4
(1)SCHOOL OF NURSING, Universidad Autonoma De Nuevo Leon, MONTERREY, Mexico
(2)School of Nursing, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
(3)SCHOOL OF NURSING, UAS, SINALOA, Mexico
(4)School of Nursing, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico

Purpose: Determine the relation of the key conditioning factors (FBCs), self-care ability, and self-care activities with skin lesions in adults with Diabetes Type 2 (DT2).

Methods: The design of the research was descriptive-correlate with a sample of (227) which was calculated with a level of significance of .05, a power of 90%, a medium effect size in regards of the coefficient of determination (R2) of .09 and a rate of no answer of 10%. It was not a non-probabilistic sample for convenience. The ifnormation was colected in a a clinics of the first level of attention.

Results: The sample was made of 227 participants with an average age of 54.6 years (SD=10.3; Md=56, IC: 95%), 67% were female; 71.4% said they were married and with an school average on years was 8.07 (SD= 3.57; Md=8, IC: 95 %) while a clinical characteristic of diagnosis years with illness was of 9.87 years (SD=6.61; Md=9, IC: 95 %). On the model of general objective is seen that the FBCs (single civil status) influenced skin lesions F (1, 17)= 1.95, p= <.005, R2a= .037. Most o the participante told us that they never got information abouth the skin care.

Conclusions: FCBs (females and schooling) is related with AAC and CAC on skin of adults with DT2. On the other hand, among the variable, FCB and skin lesions, it was only found a significant relationship with the marital status in a participant condition as married. The diabetes type 2 is a public health problem, the adults with this disease need to do a self-care in order to prevent complications. The care in the skin is very important and necessary. The ADA recommends the specific cares for the skin of people with disease. The 30 – 90% has skin problems and if they don’t have prevention care will be major complications as food diabetic.