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Introduction: During the 20th century, the
leading causes of death shifted from infectious to chronic
diseases: Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes are
now among the most prevalent, costly, and preventable of all
health problems. These diseases have been strongly
associated with unhealthy lifestyle habits, including
inappropriate nutrition, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol
consumption, caffeine overuse, and improper sleeping habits.
Objectives: The aim of the present study is to assess the
knowledge of the university students regarding Diabetes
Mellitus, detect the most common inadequate areas of
knowledge regarding diabetes, determine the needs of
universality students regarding diabetes Mellitus. Subject
and methods: descriptive with convenience random sampling
was used which calculated 100 from education college carried
out in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia specifically in Qassim
region. One modified tool for data collection was used
divided into four (4) main parts related to sociodemographic
characteristics, assessment of student's knowledge risk
factors , clinical manifestations , treatment and
complications of D.M respectively .Results: results of the
present study revealed significance difference in many items
related to general knowledge of D.M . Conclusion: The
present study concluded that the university students had
satisfactory level of knowledge in many areas related to
Diabetes Mellitus. Recommendations: in order to generalize
the present study result various further studies in
different geographical areas and large study sample size
should be emphasized.
Keywords:
students, university, awareness, diabetes Mellitus,
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