Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by elevated blood sugar levels.Controlling blood sugar is an effort that must be done to avoid komplikasi.Upaya DMpatients blood sugar control is done by providing nutritional counseling. In counseling isneeded props or media. The role of media is very strategic to clarify the message andincrease the effectiveness of nutritional counseling process. This study aims to determinethe response of patients with diabetes mellitus complications on media use leaflets andphotos of foodstuffs on nutritional counseling. This research is descriptive. Population andsample are patients who come in Poli Nutrition diagnosed as having diabetes mellituscomplications. Sampling using consecutife sampling as many as 23 people. Data on theresponses of research subjects was measured using a questionnaire and analyzed innarrative form.The results showed that 56.5% of the subjects responded very well foodstuffs photosused in the process of nutritional counseling and 60.9% of the subjects were verysatisfied with captions on photos of food ingredients to be applied in the setting offoodstuffs. 69.6% of the subjects stated that the photo is very interesting food ingredientsused in the process of nutritional counseling. The conclusion of this study is a photo offood ingredients can be used as one of the alternative media in the process of nutritionalcounseling.
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