| dc.description.abstract | Diabetes mellitus is a disease requiring long term and lifetime therapy. Knowledge of
patients on diabetes mellitus they suffered affected their behaviors to comply with
medication procedure. Adherence with medication was one factor of therapeutic
success. Knowledge of patients on diabetes mellitus and their adherencewith used of
oral antidiabetic could increase therapeutic success. This research aimed to find
knowledge level of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, adherence rate of patients
with type2 diabetes mellitus and correlations between knowledge level and adherence
with oral antidiabetic used in outpatients with type2 diabetes mellitus in RSUD
PanembahanSenopatiBantul Yogyakarta. This research is analytic with cross
sectional design. Sampling technique in this research used purposive sampling.
Criteria of inclusion were patients having 40-65-year old ages, using oral antidiabetic
and having been treated for more than 3 months. Data were collected by distributing
questionnaires and medical recording for patients. Scores of knowledge were
obtained from results of answering knowledge questionnaires containing questions on
diabetes mellitus consisting of therapy, diet, sport, foot care and monitoring for blood
sugar. Evaluation of adherence used scores derived from Modified Morisky Scale
questionnaires. Statistical test used Chi Square with 95% confidence interval. The
results of research could be used to conclude that, of 83 patients, those having high
knowledge level were 51.81%, those complying with use of oral antidiabetic were
62.65%, there were correlations between characteristics of patients and knowledge
level (education 0.000) and adherence with use of oral antidiabetic (used of drug
0.037, education 0.025 and complication 0.018), there were correlations between
knowledge and adherence with use of oral antidiabetic where the value is 0.006 ( <
0.05).
Keywords: Type2 Diabetes Mellitus, Characteristics of Patients, Knowledge,
Adherence, Oral Antidiabetic, MMS | en_US |
