TY - JOUR AU - Mardhiah, AU - Sidabutar, Rina Rahmadani PY - 2022/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Effect of Patient Self-Esteem on The Motivation to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers JF - Caring: Indonesian Journal of Nursing Science JA - Indones. J. Nurs. Sci. VL - 4 IS - 2 SE - DO - 10.32734/ijns.v4i2.10228 UR - https://talenta.usu.ac.id/IJNS/article/view/10228 SP - 42-51 AB - <p>Diabetic foot ulcers negatively impact the self-esteem of<strong> d</strong>iabetes mellitus patients. Their self-esteem affects their motivation to recover. This was caused by the intention of being negative towards themselves. It affecst the instrinsic motivation of the patients. This study used a questionnaire to obtain the data. Frequency distribution and Spearman Rank (Rho) correlation test with a significant level of 5% were used as the statistical tests. Spearnman Rank result test was p-value=0.000 with a correlation coefficient of 0.0519. Based on the study results, it can be conluded that there is an effect of patient self-esteem on their motivation to treat diabetic foot ulcers at Asri Wound Care Center Medan.</p> ER -