Efektifitas Pelaksanaan Senam Kaki Diabetic dalam Menurunkan Intensitas Nyeri pada Pasien Diabe- tus Mellitus di Rumah Sakit Siti Khodijah Sepanjang

The incidence of diabetes mellitus is increasing which causes pain in the legs of sufferers.
Safety and comfort needs will not be fulfilled if the patient experiences pain, therefore
nurses as professional health workers who in their main task are to meet the basic needs
of patients, must be able to understand the response and behave professionally in deal�ing with pain problems that occur in
patient. One effort to reduce pain intensity is by implementing diabetic foot exercises
in patients with diabetes mellitus. The purpose of this implementation is to find out the
effectiveness of the implementation of diabetic foot exercises in reducing pain intensity
in patients with diabetes mellitus in the sacred hospital throughout. The design of this
study is the study of experimental design of Static Group Comparison. The population is
patients who are hospitalized in Siti Khodijah. Along with the technique of simple ran�dom sampling. Data collection through questionnaires and observations, then the data
is processed using and analyzed by Spearman Rho analysis and then concluded. Based
on the results of the study, it was found that before the leg exercises most respondents ex�perienced moderate pain, namely 19 people (63%), after doing leg exercises most of the
respondents experienced mild pain, 21 people (70%) experienced mild pain. While the
results of statistical tests show that the provision of foot exercises is effective in reducing
pain intensity in patients with Diabetes Mellitus with the results of ρ = 0.000.