The Relationship between Psychoeducation and the Decrease in Family Burden of Diabetes Mellitus Patients, Magelang, Indonesia

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that is frightening because a lifelong disease and can not be cured. Diabetics should pay attention to their blood sugar levels to improve their quality of life and can be a burden not only for the patient's but also their family. One of the interventions to overcome this problem is psychoeducation. It is a therapy to provide information to individuals who are experiencing distress, providing education to improve skills and be able to understand and have coping due to illness that causes problems in family relationships. The study objective was to determine the effect of psychoeducation on the family and DM patients at the clinic of Prof. Dr Soerojo Magelang. It was an experimental design with pretest and post test. Intervention group will be given psychoeducation both patient and family while control group without psychoeducation. Respondents were patients and family with random allocation sampling. Before and after psychoeducation will be measured to the family about family burden, control regularly and family support. The result showed that variable of psychoeducation was realted to family burden (p <0.01). It was concluded that psychoeducation was significant to decrease family burden on family who had DM patient. Psychoeducation may help to minimize or prevent the effects of burden on family caregivers responsible for patients’ of DM.