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Background: Despite advancements in pharmacological treatments for diabetes mellitus (DM), the significance of adequate knowledge, a positive attitude, and proper self-care practices among individuals with DM cannot be overstated. Aim: This study assessed the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) related to diabetes among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study surveyed 161 patients with T2DM at Tshepong Hospital over five months. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to evaluate their KAP. Glycaemic control was assessed using the most recent glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c). Data were analysed descriptively using means (standard deviation), frequencies, and correlation statistics. Results: The mean age of the participants was 55.94 ± 14 years, with females comprising 59% of the sample. Scores for knowledge, attitude, and practice were 57 ± 17%, 94 ± 9%, and 40 ± 10%, respectively. No correlation was found between KAP and sociodemographic or clinical characteristics. A significant but weak positive correlation was identified between knowledge and practice (r = 0.19391, p-value 0.013). There was no association between composite KAP scores and glycaemic control. Poor glycaemic control (HbA1c ≥ 7%) was observed in 86.34% of participants. Conclusion: The study indicates that a positive attitude alone is insufficient for effective self-care practices, due to poor knowledge. The absence of a significant relationship between KAP and participants' characteristics suggests the presence of other unexplored confounding factors. Further research is needed to identify these determinants of KAP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most fitting way to celebrate Joan Petersilia's numerous advancements within the field of criminal justice is to deliberately practice the two most important lessons that perhaps best define her legacy. First, embedded research should drive collaborative partnerships to foster real-world change based on science. Second, such real-world change should reduce the consequences of crime as well as the social costs of heavy-handed criminal justice sanctions within distressed communities to transform criminal justice policy and practice. In this paper, we outline future directions for policing practice and research as a result of the embedded, collaborative partnerships that led to the Tulsa Community-Based Crime Reduction (CBCR) initiative. The Tulsa CBCR initiative and subsequent evaluation shows that police-driven, collaborative stakeholder partnerships (including business owners, resident steering committees, local government, police, and researchers) significantly reduced crime within targeted areas, allayed many citizens' perceptions of risk, and improved residents' attitudes about the Tulsa Police Department. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I draw on interviews and participant observation data from a two-year-long ethnographic study in a Russian Orthodox parish in the United States. I argue that both the Russian Orthodox immigrants and the Protestant converts to Orthodoxy attending this parish may be usefully thought of as diasporic groups. Seeking to construct their particular Orthodox identity, both groups deal with their own physical and symbolic displacements, and attempt to find their place of belonging. I demonstrate how in the process, through reliance on religious narratives, prayer, and Russian Orthodox icons, parishioners construct two overlapping, yet distinctive places of their origin: Holy Rus' and Orthodox Russia. Finally, attending to how some Orthodox Christians were able to position themselves in two groups simultaneously, I suggest that we think of religious practitioners as able to inhabit two diasporas at once. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]