Abstract :
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that does not cause death directly, but fatal
if not managed appropriately. Control of DM disease process is largely
determined by the high treatment compliance to prevent any complications. This
research is an analytic with cross sectional study to 266 patients with type II
diabetes mellitus in Internist policlinic Dr.Oen Solo Baru hospital in December
2018, sampling technique that used in this study is purposive sampling. This
study was conducted to determine the percentage of patient?s adherence to
treatment of type II diabetes mellitus and determine whether there is a correlation
between the level of compliance therapy on the effectiveness of the therapy. From
the research that has been done shows a high level of compliance (32,3%),
moderate compliance (50,4%) and low compliance (17,3%). Characteristics of
patients with type II DM obtained is aged 56-65 years old (45,9%), women
(62,8%), had basic education (65,4%), experienced obese 1 (32,3%), disease
duration 1-5 years (53,0%), with no history (69,9%), got support (74,1%), did not
exercise (62,8%), using BPJS health (93,6%), got a combination of two drugs
(48,9%), metformin and glimepiride (34,5%) had comorbidities (74,8%), one
comorbidity (34,2%), had hypertension (28,1%), From the research it can be
concluded there is a correlation between the level of compliance therapy on the
therapy?s effectiveness (p value = 0,000).