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Effect Of Education In Preventing Diabetic Foot Ulcers To Compliance And Quality Of Life The Diabetic Patients.

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Mahanta Qaribi, Dewi Elizadiani Suza , Rosina Tarigan

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Objective of the research was to find out the influence of education in preventing foot ulcers on compliance in DM Type 2 patients. Material and Methods: the research used quasi-experimental method with pretest-posttest control group design. It was done at USU Hospital from July to August, 2019. The samples were 43 DM Type 2 patients in control and intervention grouprespectively, taken by using convenience sampling technique. The data were analyzed by using Wilcoxon statistic test. Result: the result showed that there was the influence of education in preventing diabetic foot ulcers (p<0.05) on the level of patients’ compliance. Conclusion: Education in preventing diabetic foot ulcers was done to increase compliance in DM patients to prevent more complication and to increase the quality of life the diabetic patients.

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