PENGARUH PENDIDIKAN KESEHATAN PERAWATAN KAKI TERHADAP KEPATUHAN PASIEN DIABETES MELLITUS TIPE 2 DALAM MELAKUKAN PERAWATAN KAKI DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS JENGGAWAH KABUPATEN JEMBER

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus type 2 is a chronic disease which is caused by a decrease in the amount of insulin or the insulin resistance that cause hyperglycemia. Diabetes mellitus can lead some complications, such as macrovascular disease, microvaskular disease, neuropathy and foot ulcers. The compliance of patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 treatment helps prevent foot ulcers and amputation of lower limbs. Health education of foot care can be used as a way to improve the compliance of diabetes mellitus type 2 patients in the foot care treatments. The aim of this research was to analyze the influence of health education of foot care to the compliance of diabetes mellitus type 2 patients in performing foot care in the working area of Jenggawah Community Health Center in Jember Regency. The type of research design used was pre experimenental with one group pretest and post test design. The population of the research were 54 respondents with 30 repondents as sample. The sampling technique used probability sampling with proportional random sampling. The data was analyzed by using wilcoxon signed rank test with 95% CI. The result showed that the value of p was 0,001 (p<0,05) so it can be concluded that there was an influence of health education on the complience of diabetes mellitus type 2 patient in performing foot care. Suggestions from this research, health workers are expected to carry out the role as educators to provide health education of foot care to the patients with diabtes diabetes mellitus type 2. Families are expected to give support to the patients with foot treatment.