| dc.description.abstract | Elderly are high risk for the development of type 2 diabetes due to the combined effects of increasing
insulin resistance and impaired pancreatic function with aging. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease
that causes insulin in the pancreas is not effective one of the treatments that can be done by
diabetics to reduce blood sugar levels One of them with physical activity, the activity is taichi
exercises.The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of taichi exercises on reducing
blood sugar levels in patients with type II diabetes mellitus.The design of this study was preexperiment one group pre-test and post-test design with a population of 88 patients and a sample of
44 respondents. Research sampling technique used purposive sampling. Data collection with
observation sheets. The intervention was carried out four times during 4 weeks. Before the
intervention, sugar levels of type II diabetics were classified as moderate as 24 people (54.5%) and
high as many as 20 people (45.5%). After the management of taichi exercises sugar levels
experienced changes in the categories of good as many as 16 people (36.4%), moderate as many as
20 people (45.5%) and high as many as 8 people (18.2%). Data analyzed with Wilcoxon Signed
Rank test with a significant level α = 0.05, the result ρ-value = 0.001 means ρ-value <α so that there
is a significant effect of taichi exercises on decreasing blood sugar levels in patients with type II
diabetes mellitus. Blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes mellitus before doing taichi exercises
with the number of respondents 44 people mostly experienced changes, evidenced by the level of
blood sugar levels from moderate levels to good. | en_US |
