Effects of a Nurse-Led Educational Intervention on Knowledge, Perception, and Compliance to Lifestyle Modifications among Diabetics in Selected Hospitals in Ibadan, Nigeria

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a Nurse-Led Educational Intervention (NLEI) onknowledge, perception, and compliance to lifestyle modifications among diabetics inselected hospitals in Ibadan. A quasi-experimental design was used to assess the impact ofa structured nurse-led educational program with a total of 122 diabetic patients purposivelyassigned in intervention and control groups (61 each) in a six-week nurse-led educationand routine care respectively. Data were collected pre and post-intervention using avalidated questionnaire, statistical analysis, descriptive statistics, paired t-tests, andANCOVA at a 0.05 significance level. The participant mean age was 63.0±11.4(Intervention) versus 65.9±11.4 (Control) (p>0.05). The Post-intervention findingsrevealed a significant improvement in the intervention group’s mean scores for NLEI groupon knowledge at 16.6±2.1 versus control at 13.8±3.0 (p<0.001), knowledge rose from11.5% to 68.8%, and on perception, NLEI group was at 82.9±9.2 versus control at75.4±11.9 (p<0.001), perception increased from 23.0% to 74.4%, while on compliance,NLEI group was at 89.6±6.7 versus control at 75.5±12.5 (p<0.001), compliance surgedfrom 16.4% to 91.8%. Nurse-Led Educational Intervention significantly improveknowledge, perception, and compliance with lifestyle modifications among diabetics andit is important to integrate such interventions into routine diabetes care, particularly inresource constrained settings.