KONSUMSI APEL TIDAK MEMILIKI PENGARUH DALAM MENGONTROL KADAR GULA DALAM DARAH PADA PASIEN DIABETES TIPE II

Abstract

The aim of this research is to find out the effect of givingapple in controlling blood sugar to diabetes mellitus type II patients inSewon 2 Public Health Center, Bantul, Yogyakarta. This is a preexperimental research with one group pretest-posttest design. Thesubject of the research was 10 patients with diabetes mellitus type II inSewon 2 Public Health Center who were taken bi using purposivesampling. The statistic test used was t-test paired. The result of bloodsugar analysis before and after the treatment with paired t-test was pvalue=0,462 (P>0.05). It means that Ho is accepted and Ha is rejected.It indicates that giving apple does not offer any contribution in controllingblood sugar to diabetes mellitus type II patients in Sewon 2 PublicHealth Center, Bantul, Yogyakarta. It is suggested to the next researchto prolong the consumtion of apples dutration.Keywords: blood sugar control, diabetes mellitus type II patient, apple.