Effect of Super–Oxidized solution dressing Versus Povidone-Iodine dressing on wound severity among patients with diabetic foot ulcer in selected hospitals at Jeyankondam

INTRODUCTION: Diabetic foot ulcer is the one of the most common and devasting complication of diabetic mellitus are painful and can lead to further infections and limb amputations. Approximately 15% of all diabetic patients are at risk for foot ulcerations during their lifetimes and 70% of healed ulcers are estimated to reoccur within 5 years. OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness of super - oxidized solution dressing versus povidone - iodine dressing on wound severity among patients with Diabetic foot ulcer. METHOD: True experimental pre-test - post-test design. 60 patients with diabetic foot ulcer were selected by simple random technique and divided in to two groups. Experimental group-I (n=30) received super – oxidized solution dressing and experimental group-II (n=30) received povidone - iodine dressing on once a day for seven days. Pre-test was done by using Bates Jensen wound assessment tool and post-test was done on 7th day by using wound assessment tool. RESULT: The findings revealed that the experimental group-I mean score 18.13 was lesser than the experimental group-II mean score 21.70. The obtained ‘t’ value was 3.763, significant at 0.001 level. There was no significant association between age, gender, history of smoking, alcoholism, and tobacco chewing, diet pattern, use of foot wear, type of treatment, treatment of diabetes mellitus, cause of foot ulcer and duration of diabetes mellitus and post-test level of wound severity of the participants in both the groups. CONCLUSION: From the above findings, it was evidenced that super – oxidized solution dressing was more effective than povidone - iodine dressing in reduction of wound severity among patients with Diabetic foot ulcer. An improvement in the wound status and thereby in the quality of life of clients could be brought by performing super - oxidized solution dressing.