The Effect Of Brisk Walking Exercise On Reducing Sugar Levels In Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients At East Kolaka District Hospital

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases with the characteristics of hyperglycemia that occurs due to abnormalities in insulin secretion, insulin action or both. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of British walking exercise on reducing blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients at East Kolaka Regency Hospital. This type of research is quantitative using a pre-experimental design with a one-group pretest-postest design approach. The research samples were patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 2 at East Kolaka Regency Hospital with a total sample of 14 people. The sampling technique used is 2015purposive sampling. The results of the statistical test obtained the average value of blood sugar levels before the intervention (pretest) was 220.36 mg/dl while the average value of blood sugar levels after the intervention (posttest) was 190.64 mg/dl. The results of the Paired t-test statistical test obtained a p value of 0.000 which means that the p value ≤ alpha value of 0.05 which means that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. Thus, it can be concluded that there is an effect on Brisk walking exercise on blood sugar level values in patients with type 2 diabetes at East Kolaka Regency Hospital.