<![CDATA[Diabetes mellitus is a chronic and complex medicaldisease that leads to significant morbidity and mortality. Self care education helps people to perform diabetes self-management in managing and treating such as controlling blood sugar levels. The purpose of this research is tounderstand the effect of self care education for reducingblood sugar levels in diabetes mellitus patients. The design ofthis research is a Pre-Experimental with Pretest-PosttestGroup Design with a Pretest-Posttest Group Design and todetermine the pre and post-test results for each group, apaired t-test was used. To determine the differencebetween the control and treatment groups, an independentt-test is used. This research was conducted from Juni toagustus 2026. The research location was at the Baki RegionSukoharjo Regency. Respondents in this study were 60patientsthat consists of 30 patient as intervention group and30 patients as a control group. The results of the study showa significant change in blood sugar levels before and aftercarried out self care education in intervention group. Beforebeing carried out self care education in intervention group,blood sugar levels were with a Mean±SD of 197.8 ± 24.1;meanwhile, after the intervention blood sugar levelsbecame 151.6 ± 18.3with p value=0,000 (p value< 0.05).Whereas control group Mean±SD of 195.3 ± 22.6;meanwhile, after the intervention blood levels sugarbecame 187.9 ± 21.0. Self care education decreasesin bloodsugarlevelsin patients with diabetes mellitus.]]>
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