Pengaruh Edukasi Manajemen Perawatan Diri terhadap Kadar Gula Darah dan Perawatan Diri Penderita Diabetes Melitus Tipe II di Puskesmas Pembantu Desa Klambir V Kebun

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that requires lifelong self-care to prevent or to deay complications and to improve quality of life. Self-care is included in the prevention of complications and the treatment to reduce the mortality rate due to DM. DSME or diabetes self-care management education is part of diabetes education as an important diabetes-related management and should be implemented through self-care actions or activities in order to provide all the adventages. The objective of this research is to determine the effect of self-care management education (DSME) on blood sugar levels and self-care of DM sufferer at Puskesmas (Puvlic Health Center) Klambir V Kebun Village. This research uses quas- experimenalt design with single goup pretest-posttest design approach. The research uses a sample size of 64 respondents, taken by using probability sampling techniue with simple random sampling method. The results of this research show that the mean blood sugar level decreases to 244.05 mg/dL (SD =98.062); and the mean score of respondents self-care increases to 33.05 (SD = 5.125) after receiving the intervention. Data analysis uses the Wilcoxon test with statistical test results for blood sugar levels with P value 0.000 (<0.05), Paired Samples T-test test with statistical test results for self-care scores obtaining P value of 0.000 (0.05). There is a significant effect of DSME on blood sugar levels and self-care of DM sufferer at Puskesmas Klambir V Kebun Village. It is hoped that health care services be capable in providing useful education about DM to increase people’s knowledge and changing people’s behavior regarding to DM self-care.