ABSTRACT
Nonadherence to the treatment of diabetes mellitus still poses a problem to the management of the disease. Moreover, the adherence of patients with diabetes is influenced by knowledge. This quantitative study design is a one-group pretest-posttest to observe the effect of audiovisual education on the knowledge and adherence of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus aged 11–19 years who were self-injecting insulin. Respondents were followed for 3 months using material education needed by patients according to the ISPAD guidelines. There were significant differences before and after audiovisual intervention with respect to the increase of adherence using a questionnaire (p = 0.00, CI = 0.95; α = 0.05), with p < 0.05. Knowledge data of 22 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus before and after education were collected by using the questionnaire, and the corresponding mean values were 5.36 ± 2.574 and 8.05 ± 2.299 (p < 0.05). We conclude that audiovisual education can affect the knowledge and adherence before and after education in adolescent patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
