Backgorund: Metabolic disorders cause diabetes mellitus (DM) which are indicated the presence of blood sugar levels that exceed normal. Consists of the attitude aspect: knowledge: of symptoms, treatment, lifestyle, prevention, treatment, treating complications, and developing personal strategies for making decisions. emotional: stress. diet, self-management skills, and transitions in life. While the behavioural aspects include, diet, physical activity: aerobic exercise and physical activity using DM drugs regularly: anti-diabetes and insulin drugs, monitoring blood sugar self-carePurpose: To ascertain how a self-management intervention affects attitudes and behavior, in DM patients.Method: The method used is a systematic literature review taken from international journals. Search for library sources and numbers in this article through the Scopus, Pubmed, and ScienceDirect databases, 2018-2022 with a total of 3,862 articles. data search for each database using keywords: self-management, attitude, behaviour, diabetes mellitus.Result: Based on the review of the articles, the results showed that the quality of self-management education in diabetes patients includes attitudes and behaviour. Attitude variables include knowledge: symptoms, treatment, lifestyle, prevention, treatment, treating complications, and developing personal strategies for making decisions. emotional: stress. diet, self-management skills, and transitions in life(p0.05). While behavioral variables include, eating patterns (p = 0.00), physical activity: aerobic exercise and physical activity(p=0.001), use DM drugs regularly: anti-dibates drugs and insulin(P0,001), blood sugar monitoring (P0,05), self care (P0,01).Conclusions: Self-management of behavioural aspects consisting of diet, physical activity, regular use of DM medication, blood sugar monitoring, and foot care. Likewise, the attitude aspects consisting of knowledge, emotions, lifestyle, self-management skills and transitions in life are very effective for providing prevention, controlling complications and improving the quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus independentlyKeywords: Self management, attitude, behaviour, diabetes mellitus