Description of Spiritual Coping in Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcer at the Wound Care Clinic In Makassar City

Intoduction: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is one of a non-infectious disease that increases from year to year. One complication that occurs in DM is Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU). DFU patients cause not only physical effects but also to have psychological effects. One of which is stress. If the patient stress, it can cause one of them is high blood sugar levels, which can affect the wound healing process. To overcome this problem, we using coping, which in this study looks at how Spiritual Coping with DFU patients. This study aims to determine the overview of Spiritual Coping in Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcer at the Wound Care Clinic in Makassar City. Method: This was s cross-sectional approach. Samples for this research is 52 respondents with consecutive sampling technique. This research was conducted for one month, from September to October 2019. The instrument used for this study was the BRIEF RCOPE questionnaire. Results: Our finding confirmed mainly participant living with DFU has a definite spiritual coping. Conclusion: Overall, patient living with DFU has adopted positive spiritual coping

Evaluation of Family Knowledge in Detecting Risk of Diabetes Foot Ulcer in Public Health Center

Introduction: Diabetes Foot Ulcer (DFU) is one of the most common DM complications, due to several factors including lack of knowledge in foot care, maladaptive behaviors in preventing DFU, and inadequate of education to the community related to the detection of DFU. This study aimed to evaluate family knowledge in detecting the risk DFU in public health centres. Method: This is a quantitative research used descriptive research methods. The instrument used was a questionnaire that consisted of 10 question items. The sample in this study was 40 families and have been educated in the previous studies. Results: The result of this study stated that family knowledge related detection of risk of DFU more better in younger compare to elderly (25% vs 2.5%), and mainly house wife has a good ability in knowledge Conclusions: Family knowledge related to the detection of DFU consider good