การจัดการตนเองของผู้สูงอายุที่เป็นโรคเบาหวานในบริบทของชุมชนอีสาน Self-Management in Elderly People with Diabetes Mellitus in Esaan Context

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Self-management in elderly people with Diabetes Mellitus will enable those elderly people to encounter the symptoms and to express the symptoms of those diseases, so that they can live their lives happily. This research is made with mixed methods with objectives to study self-management in elderly people with  diabetes with the circumstance of their residence in Esaan context. Key informants are elder people with diabetes, having received health care treatment at Tambon Na Fai Health Promoting Hospital, Mueang District, Chaiyaphum Province during January 2015 – June 2015. The sample consisted of 76 persons.Tools used for the research are questionnaires, depth interviewing and observation. The data are analyzed using descriptive statistics and details analyze.

The result of the study revealed that 67 elderly people from the whole samples (85.2 percent) are farmers who perceived that getting those kinds of diseases are natural phenomena. They rarely feel worried, but they do not have consistent food control, frequent sweet drinks 38 persons (50.0 percent), frequent sweet foods 33 persons(43.4 percent) ,They Perceived that food control has no result with level in the blood sugar.  Most of them do some exercise 15-20 minutes a day by walking and jogging early in the morning. Though, their exercise is not pattern. Perceived  in that , be valuable make feel relaxed.   However, they take some rests and naps during the day time. 24 persons (31.6 percent) forgot to take medicine, while 29 persons (38.2 percent) took herbal medicine. 34 persons (44.4 percent) have no attention in their foot injuries by wearing shoes and footwear, 36 persons (46.7 percent) did not check  their feet. Most of them have their constant follow up