BODY IMAGE PASIEN DIABETES MILLITUS YANG MENGALAMI GANGGREN

Diabetes mellitus causes a DM complication where the wound complication are hard to recover, red to black, spoiled smell so there is amputation must be done in the end. This condition clearly disturbs body image which causes the patient feel embarrassed, low, and rejects this body condition. This purpose of this research is to know body image of gangrene diabetes mellitus patient in Dr. Sayidiman Magetan hospital.
This research design is descriptive. The sampling technique is purposive sampling, with 589 populations. The sample is 49 respondents. The data collecting technique is questionnaire with T Score as data analysis technique.
The result of this research is 25 respondents (51%) have positive body image, and 24 respondents (49%) has negative body image. This depends on gender, age, time of DM and gangrene suffer, living together, kind of dysfunction, education.
Based on this research, it is hoped the patients can increase good body image in order to help the healing process, for next researcher suggested not to stop doing research about body image of gangrene diabetes mellitus with wider populations so reach optimal carefulness.