Health Promoting Behavior of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension at the Chainat Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional analytical study aimed to identify factors related to health
promotion of patients with Diabetes mellitus and Hypertension at the Chainat province.
The 400 patients registered at a public health care unit of the Chainat province and were
selected by a multistage cluster sampling. Information was collected by questionnaires and
analyzed by descriptive statistics such as percentage, mean, standard deviation and
inferential statistics with a step wise multiple linear regression.
The result showed that the modifying factors including income, Interpersonal
influences, situational factions, prior to health behavior positively correlated with the
health promotion behavior of patients with Diabetes mellitus and Hypertension (p<0.001).
The cognitive perception and the cues to action factor and also in each component were
positively correlated with health promotion behavior (p<0.001). The predictive value of the prior
health promotion behavior, perceived health status, perceived benefits of health promoting
behaviors, situational factors, external cues to action, perceived definition of health, incomes,
perceived self-efficacy, perceived control of health, and importance of health have a predicting
value 47.6% for health promotion behavior among patients with Diabetes mellitus and
Hypertension disease
The finding suggests that patients should be encouraged to continue health promotion
behavior by invention of health promoting cognitive perception and the cues to action factor
such as prior health promotion behavior, perceived health status, perceived benefits of health
promoting behaviors, situational factors, external cues to action, perceived definition of health,
incomes, perceived self-efficacy, perceived control of health, and importance of health