Anxiety Response and Blood Glucose of Diabetes Mellitus Patients During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The phenomenon in someone diagnosed with diabetes mellitus in the development of emotional responses usually exacerbates the patient's situation in managing glucose. This research aimed to determine the relationship between anxiety reactions and blood glucose in individuals with diabetes mellitus during the Covid-19 epidemic. The study utilized a cross-sectional design. The population in this research was all individuals with diabetes mellitus in the hamlet of Ngrandulor who were taken by purposive sampling. The sample yielded 19 responses and was analyzed using the Spearman rank test. The findings indicated that the features of respondents' anxiety ranged from moderate to severe, with some of the respondents having blood glucose levels of more than 400 mg/dl as many as 6 respondents (31.6 percent ). (31.6 percent ). The statistical analysis findings based on study data produced a p-value of 0.007 with a value of r = 0.0579, therefore showing a p-value <0.05. The result of this research is to demonstrate that there is a connection between anxiety reactions and blood glucose in individuals with diabetes mellitus during the Covid-19 epidemic.