THE IMPACT OF TELENURSING ASSISTANCE ON THE GLYCEMIC LEVELS OF TYPE II DM CLIENTS AT LOCAL HEALT CLINIC KAMPUNG BARU LUWUK IN BANGGAI 2016

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease requiring treatment in glycemic control. Controlling glycemic can be carried out by a kind of assistance performed by using Telenursing. The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of telenursing assistance on the glycemic levels of type II DM clients at Puskesmas Kampung Baru Luwuk in Banggai. The research design applied is quasi-experimental pre and post test without control group design with 14 type II DM clients as the sample. The result shows there is a difference in average fasting glycemic levels in Type II DM clients prior to the intervention, which is 230,64 mg/dl, and following to the intervention, the result is 127,81 mg/dl thus found a reduction in glycemic level by 102,83 mg/dl. By the statistical test result using Pair T Test, the value (p value of 0.000) was obtained. Therefore, it can be analyzed that telenursing assistance takes effect on lowering fasting glycemic of type II DM clients. The result shows that communication by phone (SMS) can be developed for assisting controlling glycemic level of type II DM clients through Prolanis program.