RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY SEBAGAI UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KUALITAS HIDUP PENDERITA DIABETES MELLITUS

Abstract

Patients with diabetes mellitus decreased quality of life associated with the complications posed by the disease. Quality of life can also be used as a parameter related to the impact the handling of patient treatment that has been done. The purpose of this research was to understand the effectiveness of rational emotive behavior therapy in improving the quality of life of people with diabetes mellitus with diabetic patients’ expectations can manage diabetes mellitus mellitus and live better. The method used quasi-experimental method. All subjects were given the scale of quality of life of diabetes mellitus DQOLCTQ-R. Then the experimental group was given 12 times season REBT. Then there was a posttest to see impact of REBT on experimental group. The subjects in this study 7 people for the experimental group and 7 for the control group. the was a significant difference between the quality of life of people with diabetes mellitus when administered before the intervention and after obtaining the intervention of rational emotive behavior therapy. This is indicated by the z = -3.071 with p = 0.002, for p <0.05 with a significance level of 5%. This concluded that REBT can improve the quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus.. Quality of life scores of the experimental group is higher than the score of quality of life of the control group