Self-Care Behaviors of Diabetes Patients at Posa Sub-District Health Promotion Hospital in Angthong Province

Abstract

          The purpose of this quantitative research were to study the demographic characteristics and knowledge associated with self-care behaviors of people with diabetes. The target population were 115 diabetes patients attending the diabetes clinic of Posa sub-district health promotion hospital in Angthong province. Data were collected by questionnaire and Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient tested for reliability knowledge about diabetes was 0.72 and self-care behavior of diabetic patients was 0.73. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics including percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, frequency, Chi-square test and Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient.

          The study found that the level of knowledge about diabetes, the majority of diabetes patients had high level of knowledge about 47.80 percent and self-care behaviors, level of diabetic patients had moderate level by average 2.33 (SD = 0.17) the demographic characteristics, there are 4 variables including age, income, duration of illness and blood sugar levels showed a statistically significant relation to self-care behaviors. The study revealed has positive relationship between the knowledge of diabetes causation and self-care behaviors which was low level (p = 0.046, r = 0.186). However symptom, complication and treatment of diabetes did not show a statistically significant association with self-care behaviors. The overall knowledge of diabetes had positive relationship with self-care behaviors which was low level (p =0.024, r = 0.210)