Many nurses in SSA have adequate knowledge of diabetes self-management support and care in some studies¶
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q2 i? Three included studies found the majority of nurses had adequate knowledge of diabetes care, e.g. 57% correct answers in South Sudan and 73.3% adequate management knowledge in Kenya. → Nyalapa McDonald William; Gombachika Belinda Thandizo 2025
Evidence¶
Nyalapa McDonald William; Gombachika Belinda Thandizo 2025¶
Nyalapa McDonald William; Gombachika Belinda Thandizo. (2025). Diabetes knowledge of nurses in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. BMJ Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106689
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The review's narrative synthesis reports that "three (15%) studies found that the majority of the nurses had adequate knowledge of diabetes care", citing examples from South Sudan, South Africa and Kenya.
"Of these, three (15%) studies found that the majority of the nurses had adequate knowledge of diabetes care."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Barriers to nurses' diabetes knowledge acquisition include lack of guidelines, inadequate staffing, salary and training resources — related
- Specific knowledge deficits in Ghana and Libya studies: type 2 diabetes, DKA and complications — reports the opposite
- Facilitators of nurses' diabetes knowledge acquisition include experience, refresher nutrition courses and NCD training — related
- Nurses in sub-Saharan Africa show knowledge gaps in diabetes pathology, insulin therapy, treatment and complications — reports the opposite
- Educational programmes are associated with significant improvements in nurses' diabetic foot care practice, measured in seven of the nine included studies — related
- Post-intervention knowledge and practice scores are positively correlated, suggesting education should be designed to bridge the knowledge-practice gap — related
- Educational programmes are consistently associated with statistically significant improvements in nurses' knowledge of diabetic foot care across nine quasi-experimental studies, with very low certainty of evidence — related
- Nurses begin with low baseline knowledge of diabetic foot care, and educational qualifications may moderate post-training knowledge gains — related
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