Knowledge as the most related factor to individual dietary of persons with DM Type II genetical History in 1st Kesugihan Public Health of Cilacap Regency

Type 2 Diabetes mellitus is described as a metabolic abnormality caused by various etiologies such as genetical history, unbalanced dietary, and sedentary life style. Genetical hystory is a risk factor that cannot be changes. Peoples with genetical hystory should be changed their live style, especially personal dietary. However, many people did not realized the risk and still consuming more carbohidrate and fat in their diet. This study aimed to determine the related factors to individual dietary of a person with DM Type 2 genetical history in First Kesugihan Public Health of Cilacap Regency. It used analytic survey approach with cross sectional method. The sampling technique was cluster random sampling. There were 52 people with DM type 2 genetical history taken from Kesugihan district. Spearmans rank is used to analized the data, then continued with linier regretion. The result showed that there were relationship between education (p value 0,002), socioeconomic state (p value 0,0001), knowledge (p value 0,0001) and personal preference (p value 0,0001) to individual dietary. There is no relationship between attitude (p value 0,215) and activity (p value 0,775) to individual dietary. These mean that education, knowledge, sosioeconomic, personal preference are important factors to managed the individual dietary.