Abstract
Diabetes mellitus causes a lot of various complaints and complications. One of the most serious and most common complications is diabetic ulcers. Prevention of diabetic ulcer complications can be done with comprehensive wound care. The Appropriate wound care management can prevent amputation. One of a method of wound care that can accelerate the wound healing process is modern dressing wounds. This researched aim to analyze the effectiveness of wound care using modern dressing method to the diabetes mellitus patients. The research design was pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test with 15 samples. The data analyzed using Paired T-test. The result of data analysis using Paired T-test with significance level of 5% obtained à= 0,000 and the average value of wound development before and after wound treatment using modern dressing method has decrease from 39,67to 29,93 because wound care with modern dressing method make environment of wound is moist so that capitalization and granulation process growth up be faster. So it can be concluded that there is an effect of wound care using modern dressing method to the wound healing process with diabetes mellitus.
Highlights
More people in the world are suffering from diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus itself many complications cause one of the most serious and most often encountered diabetic foot ulcers (Prasetyono, 2016). This diabetic foot problem is a cause of hospitalization for patients with diabetes mellitus and requires substantial maintenance costs and becomes a burden in health care, this problem can be prevented (Aini & Aridiana, 2016)
The population in this research was all the patients with diabetes mellitus who suffered diabetic ulcer that exists in the home wound care of husada prima Mandiri prajurit Kulon mojokerto who is totaling 20 responded
Summary
More people in the world are suffering from diabetes mellitus. The increase in the number of people with diabetes mellitus due to the increasing life expectancy (UHH), especially in developed countries so that the number of people with diabetes mellitus was increasing (Marewa, 2015). Even IWGDF (International Working Group on Diabetic Foot) says amputation occurs every 30 seconds globally because of diabetes (Prasetyono, 2016) This diabetic ulcer is the leading cause of home care for 80% of patients with Diabetes Mellitus (Aftria, 2014). Based on data of registration report of home wound care of Husada Prima Mandiri Prajurit Kulon Mojokerto in 2015 until 2016 there are 80 patients with diabetic ulcers, and in January to February 2017, there are 20 patients with diabetic ulcer. 2017, at home wound care of Husada Prima that diabetic ulcer patients treated with. The population in this research was all the patients with diabetes mellitus who suffered diabetic ulcer that exists in the home wound care of husada prima Mandiri prajurit Kulon mojokerto who is totaling 20 responded. Data collected tested using paired T-test statistic to test whether wound care method using modern effective for diabetic wound healing by using SPSS 17.0
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