BersaMaDia App for Improving Quality of Life in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients at Asri Medical Center Muhammadiyah Hospital Yogyakarta

Abstract

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a major health problem worldwide that can cause impairment in quality of life. One of the efforts that can be made to improve quality of life is by providing education to patients. In the current era of digitalization, health services can use the concept of e-health which focuses on diabetes self-management. BersaMaDia mobile application is the implementations of the e-health concept created through interprofessional collaboration. This study objective is to evaluate the improvement in the quality of life of diabetes mellitus patients by using the BersaMaDia application at Asri Medical Center Muhammadiyah Hospital Yogyakarta. This study is a pre-experimental study with a one group pre-post design. A total of 30 patients were given an intervention using the BersaMaDia application for 1 month. Measurement of patients’ quality of life pre and post the intervention using the diabetes quality of life clinical trial questionnaire (DQLCTQ) which includes 8 domains. Data were statistically analyzed with SPSS using paired sample t-test. The results showed that there was a difference in the average quality of life pre and after the intervention with an average score of 26.98 and 33.57 respectively (p value 0.000). The use of the BersaMaDia application can improve the quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus immediately after 1 month of using the application.