Failure of Group Therapy Method for Medication adherence of Diabetes Mellitus Patient

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Muhlisa, Amira

Abstract

The global prevalence of diabetes in adults aged 20-79 is estimated to be 8.8% of the total world population in 2015 or around 415 million.
Interestingly, more than half (56%) of all diabetics in the world are found to live in the Southeast Asia Region and the Western Pacific Region.
North Maluku Province is one of the regions in Indonesia with a fairly large prevalence of diabetes mellitus sufferers of 1.1%. This study aims to
understand deeply how group therapy fails to explore adherence to a medication of diabetic Mellitus patients in Ternate City. This research is
descriptive qualitative research while The subjects of this study were patients in the diabetes centre, Ternate City. The research steps include;
collect data by making observations, interviews, Focus Group Discussion, and documentation then the researcher analyzes by categorizing the
data obtained, synthesizing, and organizing into patterns, then determining what is important to learn and finally, making co nclusions. Our
findings, states that no significant difference between the pre and post-test therapy group to medication adherence (P-value > 0.05) and the
respondent's characteristic variables also have no significant Correlation with medication adherence (p-Value> 0.05). However, there are
differences in quantitative data in the variables studied on a small scale, that is, there is an increase in each of the variables. The Weakness of
this study is that the study was only conducted for 3 months so it could not profoundly change behaviour in diabetic patients .

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