Health Behavior Literacy of Older Adults with Chronic Disease in the Community
Abstract
The objective of this research was to study health behavior literacy of older adults with chronic disease and to study compare the differences of personal factors, health perception, activities of daily living with health behavior literacy of older adults with chronic disease. The sample consisted of 231 older adults with chronic disease who are aged over 60 years old and living in the Nong Pling sub-district, Mueang district, Nakhon Sawan province was randomly selected by using stratified random sampling. The research instrument was a set of questionnaires in personal factors, health perception, activities of daily living, and health behavior literacy. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA.
The research found that the older adults with chronic disease had health behavior literacy at a high level, an illness duration of 1-5 years, normal health perception, activities of daily living at the level of the group social bound. Age, education level, duration of chronic disease, health perception, and ability to perform daily activities differed in health behavior literacy with statistical significance at the .05 level, except for gender, marital status, and health perception about visual problems, osteoporosis, sleep and average monthly income.
Those involved in nursing and public health, community leaders, and stakeholders can use the results of this research to plan and create activities to enhance health literacy covers all aspects by grouping age, education level, duration of chronic illness, health perception and ability to perform daily activities.
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