Factors Associated with Self-Empowerment among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus in South Kalimantan

Self-empowering among patients with diabetes mellitus is needed to prevent complication. Self-empowering is influenced by individual factors such as gender, experience for caring diabetes mellitus and eating habit; psychological factors such as self-efficacy and coping; and health literacy such as access to health care services and provider interaction.

The aim of this study was to investigate the factors associated with self-empowerment among patients with diabetes mellitus in South Kalimantan.

This study was observational study and used cross-sectional design. Data were collected from patients with Diabetes mellitus using cluster random sampling at 3 hospitals in South Kalimantan Province. Total sample was 250 patients and also used self-report questionnaires. We used chi-square test to measure correlation between independent variable and dependent variable and logistic regression was used to investigate the factors relate to self-empowerment among patients with diabetes mellitus, p-value ≤ 0.2 was considered to analyze the variables into logistic regression.

According to chi-square test results, there was significant difference existed in the frequency of eating habits, caring experience, provider interaction, and self-empowerment. Furthermore, there was no significant difference between the two groups for gender, self-efficacy, coping strategies, access to health care services and self-empowerment. In addition, logistic regression showed provider interaction (odds ratio [OR], 50.545; 95% confidence interval [CI], 8.671 to 294.651) and eating habit (OR, 5.086; CI, 1.026 to 32.079) increased self-empowerment

Provider interaction and eating habit had significant increase on self-empowerment.