A Study to Assess the Impact of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge and Skill Regarding Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose Level for Prevention of Hypoglycemia among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Endocrinology Ward of Skims Soura

The term diabetes was probably coined by Apollonius of Memphis around 250 BC. Diabetes was first recorded in English, in the form diabetes, in a medical text written around 1425. In 1675, Thomas Willis added the word mellitus, from the Latin meaning “honey,” a reference to the sweet taste of urine in patients with diabetes. This sweet taste had been noticed in the urine of diabetic patients by the ancient Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians, Indians, and Persians. In 1776, Mathew Dobson confirmed that the sweet taste was due to an excess of a kind of sugar in the urine and blood of people with diabetes. The ancient Indians tested a person for diabetes by observing whether ants were attracted to a person’s urine and called the ailment “sweet urine disease.”[1] A Study to Assess the Impact of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge and Skill Regarding Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose Level for Prevention of Hypoglycemia among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Endocrinology Ward of Skims Soura