Health Promotion Behaviors of Person with Overweight Who are High Risk to Type2 Diabetes Mellitus in Amphur Phanom Thuan, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

Health Promotion Behaviors of the High Risk Overweight Population for type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Phanom Thuan Muang, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, and factors related to Perceived benefit, perceived self–efficacy , perceived health status and Perceived barriers to Health Promotion Behaviors

Abstract

                The objectives of the study were to analyse health-promotion behaviors of the high-risk overweight population for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Phanom Thuan District, Kanchanaburi  Province, and factors related to perceived benefit, perceived self–efficacy, perceived health-status and perceived barriers to health-promotion behaviors. The data were collected in March–June 2018. Random sampling method was used of which consisted of 274 high-risks overweight patients on type 2 diabetes mellitus. Pender’s Health-Promotion Behaviors Model was used as a conceptual framework to develop questionnaires. The instruments were tested for Item-Congruence Index between 0.6-0.8. Pearson correlation coefficient was used for data analysis. 

The results of the study were as follows: (1) The high-risks overweight population for type 2 diabetes mellitus had fair level of health-promotion behaviors. (2.) Perceived benefit of health promotion, perceived self–efficacy and perceived health-status had moderate level of health promotion behaviors; perceived barriers-to-action had high level of health-promotion behavior; perceived self–efficacy had significant positive correlation with health promotion behavior by 0.01, and perceived health status had significant negative correlation with health-promotion behavior by 0 .05.