Nasiru Sani¹*, Adamu Abdullahi Muhammed², Lawal Shuaibu³, Ahmed Ankuwa Abubakar⁴ and Habibu Sada El-Rufa'I⁵

¹College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria
²J.D Amin Library, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria
³Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences and Technology, Makarfi, Kaduna State, Nigeria
⁴Department of Nursing, Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery, Kaduna State, Nigeria
⁵Department of Health Information Management, Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences and Technology, Makarfi Kaduna, Nigeria

*Corresponding Author: Nasiru Sani, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria.

Received: October 14, 2021; Published: December 06, 2021

Abstract

The study investigates information management and Socio-Economic Factors of Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Kigali City, Republic of Rwanda. The aim the study is to determine socio-economic factors associated with types 2 diabetes complications; and identify diabetes complications, and to establish the relationship between socio-economic factors and these complications. The adopted survey research design using cross-sectional. The target population comprises all the registered diabetes patients registered at Rwanda Diabetes Association which are seven hundred and forty eight (748) diabetic patients. Purposive sampling technique was used to determine the sample size of the study. The researcher adopted a structured questionnaire as instrument for data collection. The data was analysed using SPSS version 21.0. The study found that more than half 52.7% of the respondents had completed secondary school, less than half 48.2% had regular employment, 60.2% had less than 100,000Frws, and 82.7% used health insurance and manual insurance. The study also revealed that most of the respondents have low-income. The study recommended that There should be active health policies on diabetes disease in Rwanda, there should be empowerment programmes that will improve the standard of living of the diabetes patients and lastly the recommended that there should be effective health information management to reduce the prevalence of diabetic complications in Rwanda.

Keywords: Information Management; Socio-économique; Type 2 Diabetes; Kigali; Rwanda

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Citation

Citation: Nasiru Sani., et al. “Information Management and Socio-economic Factors of Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Case Study of Kigali City; Republic of Rwanda”.Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 6.1 (2022): 19-25.

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