Relation Of Knowledge About Diabetes Mellitus With Motivation To Prevent Complications In Pematang Reba The Working Area Of Pekan Heran`s Public Health Center Of Indragiri Hulu Regency

Abstract

Different levels of knowledge of diabetics will cause different motivations in
preventing complications in people with diabetes mellitus. Most sufferers are in
the Public Health Center of Pekan Heran, which is 330 patients. The purpose of
this study was to determine the relationship of knowledge about Diabetes
Mellitus with motivation in preventing complications in the Kelurahan Pematang
Reba, Public Health Center Pekan Heran, Indragiri Hulu District. The research
method is descriptive correlative with cross sectional approach, the sampling
technique is total sampling, 70 respondents, by distributing questionnaires.
Analysis of the data in this study is univariate and bivariate analysis. The results
showed that the majority of sufferers' knowledge about diabetes mellitus was
good (90%), most patients had strong motivation in preventing complications
of diabetes mellitus (94.3%). There is a relationship between knowledge about
Diabetes Mellitus with motivation in preventing complications with a p value of
0.02 or <0.05