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Study aim
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Determining and comparing the effect of nutrition education on blood glucose control, lipid profiles, insulin resistance, anthropometric indices, liver enzymes and quality of life in women with type 2 diabetes
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Design
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A clinical trial with community-based and practice-oriented intervention and control group, with parallel groups, is one-way blind and parallel.
Qualified individuals are randomly assigned to the intervention and control group. The sample size was calculated for each group of 32, which increased the sample size to a sample size of 50 to increase accuracy.
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Settings and conduct
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This interventional study was performed on 100 female patients aged 30-60 years old with type 2 diabetes in two groups (50 subjects) in intervention group and (50 persons) in control group in Larestan. The information and experiments were studied in the study. Then, the intervention group received nutritional education for three months. After three months, all of the questionnaires and tests were reassessed from both groups.
Control group after the end of the intervention period, all the training that was given to the intervention group was done for the control group.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Women with type 2 diabetes aged 30- 59 years old who had diabetes for one year or more and who were taking oral medications to control diabetes were included.
People who were pregnant, breast-feeding, uncontrolled diabetes, or sedative, hypnotic drugs were not included in the study.
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Intervention groups
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Intervention group received educational intervention within three months.
Control group: There was no intervention on these subjects.
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Main outcome variables
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Fasting blood glucose; Glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C); Lipid profile; Weight; Cholesterol; Hypertension; Liver enzymes; Fasting insulin; Nutritional awareness; Quality of life; Physical activity; Homa index