214 Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, January-March 2022, Vol. 13, No. 1 Anxiety Levels and Coping Mechanisms in People with Diabetes Mellitus During the Covid 19 Pandemic Noor Diani 1 , Hasbi Pri Choiruna 1 , Oca Aprilyani 2 , Akbar Muhammad Ilham 2 , M. Fakhruddin Noor 3 1 Lecturer, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing School, Faculty of Medicine, Lambung Mangkurat University, 2 Nursing School, Faculty of Medicine, Lambung Mangkurat University, 3 Researcher, Idaman Hospital in Banjarbaru City Abstract Background: The psychological condition of diabetic patients affects blood glucose. Assessment of anxiety levels and coping mechanismsis important where diabetic patients are prone to psychosocial problems that affect glycemic control. Objectives: To analyze anxiety levels and coping mechanismsin diabetic mellitus patients during the COVID 19 pandemic. Methods: Descriptive methods of analytics with a cross sectional approach. Sampling with non probability sampling through purposive sampling in 66 diabetic patients at Idaman Banjarbaru Hospital. Results:The result of the analysis with p-value = 0.538 > 0.05, concluded Ho accepted. So there is no relationship between anxiety and coping mechanisms in diabetic mellitus patients during the COVID 19 pandemic. Discussion: Coping is considered a factor of a person’s equilibrium in the adjustment of anxiety conditions. Coping manages the problems faced, with adaptive coping then a person succeeds in solving the problem that makes the level of anxiety decrease. Keywords: diabetes mellitus, anxiety, coping mechanisms Corresponding Author: Noor Diani noor.diani@ulm.ac.id Introduction Non-communicable diseases are already a public health problem, both globally, regionally, nationally and locally. This causes non-communicable diseases to be the number one cause of death in the world (63.50%) 1 . One of the non-communicable diseases in the spotlight is diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease that has a collection of symptoms due to increased blood glucose levels above normal values (hyperglycemia) due to a decrease in the body’s ability to react with insulin, impaired insulin secretion, or both 2-4 . According to data states that in the age range of 20-79 years, the number of people with diabetes in the world in 2019 as many as 463 million people, and this number is projected to reach 578 million by 2030, and 700 million by 2045 5 . According to data for the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the Southeast Asia region, in 2014 there were 96 million cases in 11 Southeast Asian member countries. It also showed an increase from 4,1% in the 1980s to 8,6% in 2014 2 . As for the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Indonesia occupies the seventh position in the world as a country with the 2 highest incidence of diabetes DOI Number: 10.37506/ijphrd.v13i1.17355