2025, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part E

A pre-experimental study was performed to determine the knowledge level of diabetic foot care among patients in ballabhghar, Faridabad, and to assess the impact of a Structured Teaching Programme (STP) on the improvement of foot care practices and knowledge by complication prevention. The method of purposive stratified sampling was utilized to select 60 diabetic patients for the data collection which was done on August 9th, 2025. The demographic variables consisted of age, sex, education, income, religion, duration of diabetes, the presence of other conditions, presence of edema, and previous sources of knowledge. The data collected were analyzed by calculating mean, percentage, standard deviation, degree of frequency, and chi-square, and the findings were presented in pie diagrams and tables. The necessity for the research was founded on the idea of increasing knowledge regarding the prevention of complications from injuries and diabetic foot ulcers and the connection between knowledge scores and the demographic variables chosen. As for the main demographic aspects, most of the sample (43%) were aged between 50 and 60 years, 52% were male, 41% were at secondary education level, 99% were Hindus, 47% had a family income below ₹10,000, and 56% came from middle-class households. The pre-test over all knowledge assessment pointed to a problem; the average knowledge score was 6.7833, which is equivalent to only 78% of the highest score and corresponds to poor knowledge. The majority-wise allocation corroborated this, indicating that 78% of the participants possessed poor knowledge, 20% had average knowledge, and merely 1.6% had good knowledge. The study outcome is very emphatic in indicating the necessity for supporting educational interventions like the Structured Teaching Programme as it is the only way to cope with the district's widespread lack of diabetic foot care knowledge.