Long-term diabetes mellitus patients can cause microvascular and macrovascular complications resulting in narrowed arterial blood circulation thereby reducing blood flow to the lower limbs. This can result in poor oxygen circulation thus increasing the risk of developing diabetic ulcers. Diabetic Ulcer is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, which in case of not taken care or treated timely, it will lead to amputation. This requires good prevention and management of diabetic ulcer to handle such matter. One of the complimentary actions to help diabetic ulcer patients is acupressure. Objective of this research is to identify the impacts of acupressure to the clinical improvement of diabetic ulcer. Samples of this research contain 26 respondents, which come from 13 respondents of intervention group and 13 respondents of control group. Method of this research is Quasi-Experiment with control group pretest-posttest design. The research result indicates that acupressure with modern wound care decreases the score of diabetic ulcer improvement compared to standard therapy only (modern wound care) with p value 0,047. Results of the confounding variable test show that the terms of DM disease, smoking history, blood glucose levels and blood pressure do not relate to the clinical improvement of diabetic ulcer (p value > 0.05). Acupressure is expected may become a standard complimentary therapy of medical treatment in hospitals or wound care clinics as an additional therapy in diabetic wound care.
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