Hubungan antara Health Literacy dan Self Care Management dengan Kualitas Hidup pada Penderita DM Tipe 2

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) type 2 is a chronic disease that requires good self-care management to prevent complications and improve the sufferer's quality of life. Health literacy has an important role in understanding and managing this disease, so it can influence sufferers' ability to carry out effective self-care. So Health literacy and self care management are important factors in managing this disease. This research aims to determine the relationship between health literacy and self-care management and quality of life in people with type 2 DM. This type of research is quantitative using a cross-sectional approach. Sampling used purposive sampling with a sample size of 109. Data was obtained using a questionnaire and obtained using the gamma test and lambda test. Of the 109 respondents, it was found that there was a close relationship between health literacy and quality of life, with a value of p=0.0001 (<0.05) with an r value of 0.793 and there was a close relationship between self-care management and quality of life, a value of p=0.0001 (<0.05) with an r value of 0.744. It can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between health literacy and quality of life in type 2 DM sufferers and there is a significant relationship between self-care management and quality of life in type 2 DM patients.