THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION ON BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS

During the pandemic diabetes itself becomes most dangerous comorbid because increases risk of more severe complications when infected with Corona virus. With restrictions on activities outside home during pandemic, inevitably many people have to do all at home, but precisely this, are neglectful lifestyle management which ends up running a sententary life. Thus, mellitus not carry out one pillars stabilize blood sugar levels, namely physical activity. In addition, diabetics know that controlling levels can be done non-pharmacologically, example is relaxation techniques. Most Diabetes Mellitus never apply this they considered no function. The purpose study was determine effectiveness progressive muscle in patients type 2 mellitus. design quasi-experimental pretest and posttest intervention. research population 36 sample taken using simple random sampling, each 18 people. instrument used an observation sheet glucometer measure levels. Data analysis Wilcoxon sign rank test result <0.05. results showed before after Progressive OOT treatment group had P value = .016, <0.05, hypothesis accepted effective reducing 2. Future studies expected compare other complementary therapies