PERBEDAAN PERILAKU OLAHRAGA PENDERITA YANG BARU TERDIAGNOSA DAN YANG SUDAH LAMA TERDIAGNOSA DIABETES MELITUS

Background: Diabetes melitus is actually a controlable conditionby employing healthy lifestyle, such as physical exercise.Duration of suffering DM can affect exercise behavior for patient DM. Goal: This study is aimed to observe the differencebetween attitudes towards physical exercise of newly-diagnosed diabetes melitus patients and those of long-held diagnosed diabetes melitus patients. Research methods: The study employed a descriptive comparative method with cross sectional design. The research sampling used convenience sampling technique consisting of 23 newly-diagnosed diabetes melitus patients and 23 long-held diagnosed diabetes melitus patients. The study used questionnaire as its instrument to gather the data needed. The data was physical exercise validly assessed by using r 0,607 and using reliability assessment resulting in 0,892. The data analysis technique employed was Chi square Research result: The demographic characteristics of (bothnewly-diagnosed and long-held diagnosed) diabetes melitus patients are 1) above 50 years old, 2) female, 3) from elementary education level, 4) housewife, 5) were educated about diabetes melitus in the past. The research showed that the long-held diagnosed patients have better attitudes towards physical exercise, as seen by the result number of 17 (73,9%) compared to the newly-diagnosed patients with result number of 12 (52'2%). The research concluded that there is a significant difference between ttitudes towards physical exercise of newly-diagnosed diabetes mellitus patients and those of long-held diagnosed diabetes mellitus patients, analysed by using Chi square (p----0,000<0,05). Conclusion :There is a different attitude between long-held diagnosed patients and newly-diagnosed patients towards physical exercise. The research showed that long-held diabetes melitus patients tend to perform physical exercise compared to those the newly-diagnosed diabetes melitus patients. Therefore professional nurses are supposed to comprehensively intervene patients attitudes towards physical exercise. For further study, researcher suggests that professional intervention about physical exercise for diabetes melitus patients to be researched.
Key words Diabetes melitus, physical exercise, newly-diagnosed patients, long-held diagnosed patients
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