Diet is an important therapy for managing diabetes mellitus and reducing complications. However, counseling and consultation on diabetes diets for patients in internal medicine clinics is still low. This study analyzed the relationship between diet patterns of diabetes patients and their education and knowledge levels. It found that patients with higher knowledge levels tended to have better diets in terms of food type, energy and carbohydrate consumption, but not for schedule, protein or fat intake. Education level did not correlate with any dietary variables. Overall, most respondents had moderate energy and carbohydrate intake but deficient protein and excessive fat consumption.

1. POLA DIET PENDERITA DIABETES MELLITUS MENURUT TINGKAT
PENDIDIKAN DAN TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN
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<p>Diet represent special therapy can be able to depress appearance disease of latent diabetes mellitus and
also can depress acute and chronic complication of diabetes mellitus. Counselling and colsultation of diet to
patients of diabetes mellitus in Clinic of interna, and percentage of diabetes mellitus patients mde reference to
clinic of Interna still are very low.</p><br><p>The purpose of this research was to analyze relation among
diet pattern patient of diabetes mellitus with low education and knowledge level. The benefit of this research
could be useful to improve knowledge of society in the effort applying diabetes mellitus diet pattern
trully.</p><br><p>This research type was analytic observational using cross sectional study. The variables
was diet pattern including variable of schedule eat, food type, consume of energy, protein, carbohydrate and
fat, and free variable that was education level and knowledge level. Diet pattern was also influenced by
avalability of food and socio cultural.</p><br><p>The result of this research showed that there was relation
between knowledge level with food type wuth p equal to 0.016, bwtween knowledge level with consumption
of energy with p equal to 0.018, and between knowledge level with carbohydrate consumption with p equal to
0.018. There was no relation between education level with all variables in diet pattern and there was no
relation between knowledge level with diet schedule, protein and fat consumption.</p><br><p>This research
concluded that most of respondents have energy and carbohydrate consumption in moderate lavel, deficiency
in protein consumption and over consumption of lipid.</p><br><br>
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