Abstract
The prospective study was conducted at Kutchum Hospital during April 2000 to January 2001.The objective was to determine the effectiveness of holistic health care that provided to type 2 Diabetes mellitus ( type 2 DM ) by health care team. The health care team were consist of a pharmacist, a nurse, a dietition , a doctor, a patient and other related. person who take care the patient. The effectiveness were determine by comparing of patient compliance,chronic complication and individual problems before and after interventions. The subjects were intervenced after visited a doctor.Patient counseling was the most important instrument of interventions. There were fifteen out-patients without chronic complication were included,11 females and 4 males.Average age was 40 – 50 years old. They were diagnosted as diabetes around 1 – 5 years ago and nine cases had diabetes relatives. Most of them were farmers and also had health cards. The compliance to prescribed medication, usage of appropriate diets and self-care behaviour were increased from 2 to 8 cases, 3 to 13 cases and 9 to 15 cases, respectively. In addition, we found no report of their complication and trend of their individual problems had been decreased after forcing interventions. The result indicated that holistic health care in diabetic mellitus by health team should be applied to make the patients taking care their health according to their basic conditioning factors and health care demand.
