CORRELATION BETWEEN FAMILY’S ABILITY IN TAKING CARE OF UNDERMEDICATION FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE LEVEL OF FAMILY’S INDEPENDENCE IN DIABETES MELLITUS SEVERE DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (PROLANIS) GROUP AT TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION UNIT OF NGAWEN 1 COMMUNITY HEA
ABSTRACT: Diabetes Mellitus, a
non-contagious disease, has a long term duration and develops slowly, in which
family’s role is therefore vitally important for patients’ recovery. Efforts of
family care aim to develop and improve the knowledge as well asability and
independence in dealing with health problems in the family. This research was
aimed at revealing correlation between family’s ability to treat their
under-medication family members and its independence in Diabetes Mellitus
Severe Disease Management (Prolanis) Group at Ngawen 1 Community Health Center.
This was correlation research applies cross sectional approach, by selecting 60
people as samples. Those samples were collected by using saturated sampling
technique. The data were then analyzed by utilizing kendall tau test. This
study indicated that most of respondents were women (78.3 %), above 50 years
old (71.7 %), never attend school/never graduate from elementary school (43 %),
and work as farmers (78.3 %). The family’s ability in taking care of their
under-medication family members was 60% and the level of family’s independence
in the second level of independence was 50%. Based on the kendall lau test, it
was shown that that the correlation between family’s ability in taking care of
ill family member and the family’s independence in a diabetes mellitus Prolanis
group at Ngawen 1 Community Health Center is indicated by significant value of
p = 0.00 <0.05. This research concludes that there is a correlation between
family’s ability in taking care of under-medication members and family’s
independence in diabetes mellitus Prolanist group at Ngawen 1 Community Health
Center.
KEYWORDS: diabetes mellitus,
ability, independence
Penulis: Wahyu Rizky
Kode Jurnal: jpkebidanandd170425
