and following the given education regularly have a positive effect on their self-care activities.
Willingness of patients included in the research to participate regularly in the given education may provide an increase in their self care points.
In several studies performed with patients with type 2 diabetes,
it was found that the education given to patient shad a positive effect on their self-care activities and their knowledge about their disease.33,36,39,59,60 In this research,
the increase in the average scores of the post education scale indicate that self-care activities of patients have changed positively and the education given to patients have been beneficial.
This research finding supports the 1st hypothesis of the research.