.Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that has a significant impact on the quality of life of sufferers.
The quality of life of people with diabetes mellitus is influenced by various factors, including family
support. Family support is expected to improve the quality of life of people with diabetes mellitus.
This study aims to determine the relationship between family support and the quality of life of people
with diabetes mellitus at the BLUD Kalumpang Health Center, Ternate City. The hypothesis
proposed in this study is that there is a relationship between family support and the quality of life of
people with diabetes mellitus at BLUD Kalumpang Health Center, Ternate City. The subjects in this
study are diabetic mellitus patients of both female and male genders. The number of subjects in this
study is as many as 75 people with diabetes mellitus. The subjects were taken using the purposive
sampling technique, and data was collected using family support and quality of life scales. The data
was analyzed using product moment correlation using SPSS version 23. Based on the results of the
analysis, the correlation value of the coefficient (rxy) = hypothesis 0.719 with (p < 0.05) was obtained
so that the hypothesis in this study can be accepted. This means a significant positive relationship
exists between family support and the quality of life of people with diabetes mellitus at BLUD
Kalumpang Health Center, Ternate City. This study also showed that the determination (R2) obtained
was 0.516, which showed that the family support variable made a compelling contribution of 51.6%
to the quality of life variable. The remaining 48.4% was influenced by factors not studied in this study