Background: Diabetes has become one of public health problem up until now. As the disease progressed, it\nmight lead to increasing complication as well as death related to them. Diabetes as chronic disease in older\npeople can lead to more vulnerable conditions if they fail to carry out a proper diabetes self-management.\nDiabetes literacy is an internal factor affecting how the older people go about their diabetes management\nroutines. This study aimed to describe diabetes literacy of the older people and identify the relation of\ndiabetes literacy to diabetes self-management of the older people with T2DM in selected areas of Depok City,\nWest Java, Indonesia.\nMethod: A cross-sectional observational study was utilized and used 106 samples of older people\nindividuals with T2DM, all of whom were chosen via cluster sampling. This research took place in five\nselected areas under the supervision of three public health center in Depok City. The data were analyzed\nusing a bivariate t-independent test, the Pearson product-moment correlation, and logistic regression for\nmultivariate analysis to determine the relationship of independent and dependent variable.\nResult: This research shows a significant correlation between diabetes literacy and diabetes self-management\n(p = 0,011).\nConclusion: Diabetes self management is associated with diabetes literacy in older people with type 2\ndiabetes mellitus. Diabetes literacy should be considered when assessing and addressing diabetes-specific\nhealth education needs.
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