The Effect of Health Education Using Power Point on Knowledge and Attitudes on Diabetes Prevention Mellitus at SMP IT Muthmainnah Jambi City

Background: Diabetes mellitus or often called DM is a group of metabolic diseases which are usually characterized by frequent urination in large amounts, drastic weight loss and hyperglycemia or sugar levels that are above normal due to damage to insulin production. One effort to reduce the prevalence and improve attitudes towards preventing diabetesmellitus is health education using PowerPoint media. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of health education using PowerPoint media to increase knowledge and attitudes towards preventing diabetes mellitus in class VII students at SMP IT AL Muthmainnah, Jambi City. Method: This research is non-probability research with a one group pre test post test design using total sampling. This research was carried out at SMP IT AL Muthmainnah Jambi City. Univariate descriptive analysis includes frequency and percentage distribution, bivariate test with Shapiro-Wilk and Wilcoxon signed rank test.Result: It is known that Asymp.Sig (2-tailed) has a value of 0.000. Because the value of 0.000 is smaller than ≤ 0.05, there is a difference in the results of health education using powerpoint media for class VII students at SMP IT AL Muthmainnah Jambi City in the pretest and posttest.Conclusion: Present the main conclusions and their implications. There is an influence of health education using PowerPoint media on knowledge and attitudes towards preventing diabetes mellitus in class VII students of SMP IT AL Muthmainnah Jambi City