Family Caregiver Skill in Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Abstract

Background: Family members as caregivers must be able to provide good and proper care for patients with Diabetes Mellitus, but not all families have the skills to care for family members suffering from diabetes mellitus. Families have not been able to support diabetes management specifically for several components of diabetes mellitus management, even showing helplessness in managing and mas-tering adaptive tasks related to family health problems. Objective: This study aims to determine the description of family caregiver skills in caring for patients with diabetes mellitus. Method: The design used is descriptive with a cross-sectional approach and sampling using a multistage random sampling technique. The num-ber of samples in this study was 373 family caregivers who care for diabetes mellitus patients with data collection using a questionnaire. Results: This study shows that most family caregivers with diabetes mellitus patients have moderate skills 211 (56.6%), family caregivers who have low skills 94 (25.2%), and those who have high skills 68 (18.2%). Conclusion: The skills possessed by family caregivers who care for patients with diabetes mellitus are included in the moder-ate skill category, it is necessary to increase knowledge of the skills that must be possessed by caregivers so that the care provided is maximized.