Background: This study explores the management of self-concept in improving the quality of life of diabetic ulcer patients. Low confidence in the quality of life is a factor causing patients with long-term diabetes to believe they cannot be cured properly. Ulcers result from diabetes mellitus complications due to the nervous system and blood vessel damage. Patients with diabetic ulcers experience depression and feel acute stress when the disease has been categorized as a chronic condition.
Methods: This study uses quantitative methods with a cross-sectional study design approach. The data collection techniques used purposive sampling and had 82 diabetic ulcer sufferers as respondents in the study.
Results: This study empirically proves that (p-value ≤ α=0.05) where there is effective management of the concept of self-health applied by diabetic ulcer patients in reducing the level of depression and sufferers can increase their confidence in better health factors.
Conclusion: The effectiveness of self-care management is an important indicator in overcoming diabetic ulcer disease. The low management of self-concept for people with diabetes will certainly impact increasing depression and acute stress, decreasing the quality of life for sufferers.
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Department of Plastic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, China.
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Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
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Department of Laboratory Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamada-Oka, Suita City, Osaka 565-0871 Japan.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Angiology and Physical Medicine in Bytom, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
Introduction: Diabetic foot syndrome (DFS) a severe complication of diabetes which can result in ulcers, infections, or tissue damage in the feet.
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.
Introduction: Diabetes-related foot ulcer (DFU) is the leading cause for lower extremity amputations (LEAs) in western countries, and may cause social isolation, depression, and death. However, people with DFU are not offered the same prioritized care as cancer patients, despite comparable mortality rates. We therefore decided to create a clinical pathway for patients with DFU.
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