Abstract
Introduction: Diabetes resilience is a condition where people with diabetes can accept their incurable disease as well. It is characterized by regular blood sugar, a diet-controlled, active, and not stressful. However, various kinds of feelings must be passed to become diabetes resilience. The study aimed to know what adult type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) felt before becoming resilient. Methods: A qualitative phenomenology design was conducted to observe the experience of adult T2DM before becoming resilient. The total participants were ten T2DM patients obtained through snowball sampling. The data collection was conducted through in-depth interviews with interview guidelines and analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis. Results: The results of the study found two major themes namely psychological response and diet. Participants felt quite severe stress when diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and felt difficulty when undergoing diabetes mellitus treatment. In addition, changes in diet are also felt very difficult by participants in undergoing a diabetes mellitus diet. Conclusions: Psychological responses and diet are the hard parts felt by the participants. Increasing understanding, support, and acceptance can be one strategy to increase diabetes resilience in participants.
Highlights
Diabetes resilience is a condition where people with diabetes can accept their incurable disease as well
Other chronic illnesses caused by type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increase mortality in Indonesia (National Institute of Health Research and Development Indonesia, 2018)
A qualitative phenomenology design was chosen to find out what is experienced by people with Diabetes mellitus (DM) before achieving diabetes resilience
Summary
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease with an increasing number of morbidity every year (WHO, 2018). Other chronic illnesses caused by type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increase mortality in Indonesia (National Institute of Health Research and Development Indonesia, 2018). The data from the Baseline Health Research of Indonesia showed that T2DM patients aged ≥15 years in 2013 had an incident rate of 6.9%. This increased in 2018 to become 8.5%. Jurnal INJEC Vol 5 No 1 June 2020: 27-34 resilience disorder will be caused negative adaptation on treatment (Kim et al, 2019) This can lead to a decrease in the ability to take care of themselves, such as the ability to seek treatment, activity, and diet (Alhaik et al, 2019; Wilson et al, 2017). The study aimed to find out what is experienced by people with DM before achieving resilient requirements through a qualitative approach
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