PERBEDAAN PENGETAHUAN SELF-FOOT CARE DAN SELF-EFFICACY SEBELUM DAN SESUDAH PENDIDIKAN KESEHATAN PADA PENDERITA DIABETES MELLITUS DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS PADANG SELASA

Background: Diabetes mellitus can cause complications of foot problems. As many as 20.3% of sufferers will experience foot ulcers. Amputation should be performed if the patient has an infected foot ulcer. One way to prevent foot ulcers
is with self-foot care. To perform self-foot care for people with diabetes mellitus requires knowledge and self-efficacy. Nursing intervention to increase knowledge and self-efficacy is health education.
Purpose: Knowing the difference between self-foot care and self-efficacy knowledge before and after health education in people with diabetes mellitus.
Methods: This study used pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test with a sample of 67 respondents taken with a total sampling technique. Data collection is carried out with questionnaires and providing health education. Wilcoxon
Signed Rank Test data analysis techniques.
Results: The majority of respondents aged 56-65 years 49 (73.1%), female 42 (62.7%), last education elementary school 36 (53.7%), and long suffering from DM < 10 years 44 (65.7%), knowledge of self-foot care before being given health education 2 (3.0%) with good knowledge and after 64 (95.5%) with good knowledge, self-efficacy before being given health education 0 (0%) who had self-efficacy high efficacy, after 20 (29.9%) have high self-efficacy. There is a
difference between knowledge of self-foot care (p=0.001 <0.05) and self-efficacy
(p=0.001 <0.05) before and after health education
Suggestion: Nurses need to provide health education about self-foot care (foot
exercise and foot care) accompanied by direct demonstrations to people with
diabetes mellitus.
Key words: diabetes mellitus, health education, knowledge self-foot care, self-efficacy