Hubungan Sosial Ekonomi,Pengetahuan dan Dukungan Keluarga dengan Kadar Gula Darah pada DM tipe 2

ABSTRACT Ratna Herawati Prabowo. S521408006. 2018. The Association between Social Economic Factors, Patient’s Knowledge , Family Support with Blood Sugar Level in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Patients.THESIS. Supervisor I: Dr.Eti Poncorini, dr.M.Pd. Supervisor II: Dr. Sugiarto, dr. Sp.PD- KEMD_FINASIM. Family Medicine Study Program. Post Graduate Program, Sebelas Maret University Surakarta. Background: Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia. According to the WHO, the incidence rate of DM has increased. This is due to a lack of knowledge for DM occurrence management and lifestyle changes. The purpose of this study is to analyze the association between social economic factors, patient’s knowledge and family support with the blood sugar level in type 2 DM patients at the Jebres sub-district health center Surakarta. Subjects and Methods: The study was conducted at Sibela health center and Ngoresan health center Surakarta, with research subjects as many as 100 DM patients. The research design was cross sectional approach with purposive sampling technique. The research instruments used were questionnaires and spectrophotometers. To analyze the association between social economic variables, patient’s knowledge and family support with blood sugar levels chi square test and logistic regression are used. Results: The results of the study were 88 people have low education, 12 people have high education. People with low income were 52 people, while those with high income were 48 people. Light activities at work were experienced by 52 people, while strenuous activities were experienced by 48 people.Less knowledge belongs to 34 people, while good knowledge belongs to 66. Less family support were 42 people, good support were 58 people. High blood sugar levels were found on 24 people, while low blood sugar levels were found on 76 people. The results of statistical tests using chi square were that therewas an association between patient’s knowledge (p = 0.001) and family support (p = 0, 017) with blood sugar levels, while the results of statistical tests of social economic factors were that there was no association between social economic factors(education, p = 0.176; income, p = 0.238; work activity, p = 0.488) with blood sugar levels. The results of the analysis with logistic regression showed that there was an association between knowledge (OR = 0.867; p = 0.001) and family support (OR = 0.997; p = 0.042) with blood sugar level in type 2 DM patients. Conclusion: There is a significant association between patient’s knowledge and family support with blood sugar level in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus whereas there is no significant association between social economic factors with blood sugar level in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Keywords: Social economic factors, knowledge, family support, blood sugar levels, type 2 DM patients