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Recently Diabetes mellitus is becoming an important clinical and public health problem throughout the world. In Ethiopia although it is known that diabetes is becoming one of the emerging health issue, little is known about its prevention and the different ways of management in the general population. Specifically when we see type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), which mostly affects children is now increasing rapidly. So in order to prevent and manage it properly we have to include all responsible bodies. Families who are supportive and knowledgeable can affect the outcome of the diabetes in a good way. This study has tried to assess the knowledge and associated factors that the care givers had.The objective of this study is to assess the knowledge of type 1 diabetes mellitus and associated factors among care givers of children attending diabetic clinic in hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from March to June 2016. This study found that majority of the caregivers is less knowledgeable about T1DM.
