Effectiveness of Health Education Programme on Knowledge of Diabetes Mellitus Among Residents in Puncak Alam

The health education plays the pivotal role in increasing the public knowledge of diabetes mellitus (DM). Hence, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the health education on knowledge of DM among residents in Puncak Alam. This quasi-experimental study was carried out on 48 healthy adults who were selected from Bandar Puncak Alam. Each participant is compulsory to fulfill questionnaire of pre and post health education regarding diabetes knowledge. The results of this study, shown levels of knowledge during pre-test were mostly 83.33% (n = 40) had better knowledge. Meanwhile, 16.67% (n = 8) had poor knowledge. Forty seven participants with 97.92% had improved to good knowledge but 2.08% (n = 1) scored poor knowledge during post-test. There was also a significant association between level of knowledge and age (p = 0.01), education (p = 0.01) and salary (p = 0.03). Nevertheless, there is no association between levels of knowledge with gender (p = 0.15) and occupation (p = 0.98) respectively. This research proved that majority of residents in Puncak Alam had a good of DM knowledge. Thus, it showed that the intervention of a health education programme was effective in increasing the level of knowledge of the participants.