Comprehemsion Level of Discharger Planning With Self-Care in Patient With Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

— Self-care in patients with Diabetes Mellitus is one of the attempts to minimize complications. Self-care needs to be taught to patients through discharge planning activities given since the patients enter the hospital until they are ready to do self-care at home. This study employed a correlational design with a cross-sectional time approach. Samples in this study were 57 outpatient respondents in Polyclinic for internal organ disease of PKU Muhammadiyah Bantul Hospital. The utilized measuring instruments were discharge-planning questionnaires and SDSCA modification questionnaires for DM self-care. This research results showed that there was a correlation between the discharge planning comprehension and the self-care level in patients with diabetes mellitus (P=0.026).