Factors Affecting Exercise Behavior Among the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients

Abstract

The purposes of this descriptive research wereto: (1) study health belief in exercise behaviors of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients (2) study exercise behaviors of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients and 3) examine factors affecting exercise behaviors and health belief of exercise behaviors of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients. The sample comprised of 151 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients who had been treated in community hospitals in Chainat Province using multistage random sampling. Research instruments included personal data, exercise behavior, and health belief of exercise behavior questionnaires. The instruments were tested for Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficients. The exercise behaviors and the health belief of exercise behaviors questionnaires had reliability of 0.88 and 0.96, respectively. Data were analysed by using descriptive statistics and Stepwise Multiple Regression. The findings were as follows; (1) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients had health belief in exercise behaviors at high level (Mean = 4.17, SD. = 0.37),(2) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients had exercise behaviors at moderate level (Mean = 2.92, SD. = 0.51), (3). The factors affecting exercise behaviors of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients were cue to action, perceived barriers and age. These factors could be able to predicted exercise behaviors at 27.8 percents (p < 0.001) among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients.