Factors Influencing Stroke Preventive Behaviors among the Risk Group of Royal Thai Navy Personnel
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The objectives of this predictive research were to study stroke preventive behaviors and identify the influencing factors in risk group. The sample consisted of 142 Royal Thai Navy personnel who were at risk of stroke. They were diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes mellitus or dyslipidemia at outpatient department in tertiary hospitals of the Naval Medical Department. The instruments used in this study were demographic data form, perceived stroke vulnerability questionnaire, expectation to stroke preventive behavior questionnaire, perceived self-efficacy questionnaire, social support questionnaire and stroke preventive behaviors questionnaire. The content validity index of the questionnaires were 1, 1, 1, and 0.92 respectively. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were 0.89, 0.93, 0.91, 0.86 and 0.73, respectively. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data.
Findings in the present study showed that the average score of stroke preventive behaviors was 69.51 (SD = 6.25). Perceived stroke vulnerability, expectation to stroke preventive behaviors, perceived self-efficacy and social support could explain 20% of the variance of stroke preventive behaviors in the risk group of Royal Thai Navy personnel (Adjusted R2 = .20, p < .001). Perceived self-efficacy was the most important predictable variable for stroke preventive behaviors (β = .315, p < .05) followed by social support (β = .195, p < .05). However, perceived stroke vulnerability and expectation to stroke preventive behaviors were not statistically significantly influenced by the stroke preventive behaviors.
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