Investigation of Diabetes Complication Risk Perception and Diabetes Self-Management Skills in Individuals with Diabetes

Aim: It was aimed to examine the complication risk perception and diabetes self-management skills of individuals with diabetes. Material and Methods: The data of the descriptive and relational study were collected using google forms. The sample consists of 153 diabetic individuals. Data were collected with the recognition form, Diabetes Mellitus-Risk Perception Scale, and Diabetes Self-Management Skills Scale. Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation and median were used as descriptive statistical methods in the evaluation of the data. The distribution of the data was evaluated with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk test. Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal- Wallis test and Spearman correlation analysis were used to evaluate non-parametric data. Results: The mean age of the sample was 49.96 years, 51% were female, 24.8% were illiterate, 5.2% had postgraduate education, 45.1% had poor income, 60.1% had Type 2 diabetes and 36.6% had the highest It has few complications. 87.6% of individuals with diabetes were worried about the development of complications, their self-management scores were found to be higher than those of the nonconcerned group, and a statistically significant difference was found (p