ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A NEW DEVELOPMENT INSTRUMENT OF DETECTING BLOOD GLUCOSE AMONG DIABETIC PATIENT: NON-INVASIVE BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT TOOL

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in every country including Indonesia. The disease has serious impact to health, socioeconomic and quality of life. The patient can control their blood glucose with correct diet plan, routine activity, obey the treatment, proper skin and foot care, and blood glucose monitoring. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of a new development of non-invasive blood glucose measurement tool. This cross sectional study was used a descriptive correlation design. This research included 188 respondents. The analysis of this study was used Bland Altman test. The result has been shown that a new development of non-invasive blood glucose measurement tool had a similarity with the gold standard blood glucose measurement with R2 repeatability value was 0.163, and the average of discrepancy was 0.00088. This new development of non-invasive blood glucose measurement tool is reliable to be used as blood glucose measurement with blood sugar levels ranging from 72-408. Further test need to conduct to ensure whether this measurement tool can accurately diagnose Diabetes Mellitus (DM).