Abstract
Different levels of knowledge of diabetics will cause different motivations inpreventing complications in people with diabetes mellitus. Most sufferers are inthe Public Health Center of Pekan Heran, which is 330 patients. The purpose ofthis study was to determine the relationship of knowledge about DiabetesMellitus with motivation in preventing complications in the Kelurahan PematangReba, Public Health Center Pekan Heran, Indragiri Hulu District. The researchmethod is descriptive correlative with cross sectional approach, the samplingtechnique is total sampling, 70 respondents, by distributing questionnaires.Analysis of the data in this study is univariate and bivariate analysis. The resultsshowed that the majority of sufferers' knowledge about diabetes mellitus wasgood (90%), most patients had strong motivation in preventing complicationsof diabetes mellitus (94.3%). There is a relationship between knowledge aboutDiabetes Mellitus with motivation in preventing complications with a p value of0.02 or <0.05.
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