Total of 16 subjects were register to participate in the studies, however, 10 were only involved in the studies due to the inability of to see the patients at home and school. Prior to the start of the studies, the team conducted questionnaires regarding the frequency of checking blood glucose, family history, patient level of education regarding diabetes, as well as observing the quality care at home. Throughout the 4 months of observing, the team did see a great improvement of the blood glucose in the pediatric patients from the beginning to the last visitation.
In the article, it provided two dataset tables, where one table shows the socio-demographic characteristic of the subjects such as gender, relationship of respondent to subject, socioeconomic class, and if the home location were found or not. The second table showed the compared the mean blood glucose and HbA1c of the subject from pre and post visit. Aside from those two datasets, no other dataset was given. The quality data that was missing was precise information, which is a clear and complete detail of the …show more content…
However, the dataset that was provided was very limited and board information that does not provide details of how the quality care was conducted. The dataset can be improved by showing the number of parent’s knowledge on diabetes during the pre and post visit. Show the average years that patients were diagnosed with the disease. Also did any family member of the 10 patients have any history of diabetes or the mother had any pre-diabetes during the pregnancy. These data are very important for healthcare providers when conducting care for the patient with diabetes especially for pediatric patients because it is future references that can be use to help analysis how to provide good education to the parents that have children that are diagnosed with diabetes (Doherty, et., al,