The Factors Predicting Behaviors of Diabetes Complication among Diabetes Mellitus Patients in At Samat Sub-District, At Samat District, Roi-et Province

Abstract

     This cross-sectional survey research aimed to study 1) the knowledge and health belief model to diabetes complication 2) the prevention behaviors of diabetes complication 3) the association between health belief model and the prevention behaviors of diabetes complication 4) factors predicting behaviors of diabetes complication. A stratified random sampling was conducted to obtain 173 diabetic patients registered in the chronic disease clinic in At Samat hospital and living in At Samat sub-district, At Samat district, Roi-et province. Data was collected by the questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression.
     The results found that 77.46% of participants was female, 57.80% had the age between 61-70 years. 67.63% of participants had received primary school education, 63.00% were farmers, 55.50% had an average monthly income between 0-5000 bath, 36.42% had diabetes mellitus duration of more than 11 years. 84.97% of participants had the knowledge on diabetes at high level. The participants had perceive susceptibility, perceive severity, perceive benefit, and perceived barrier at high level with 99.42% 87.85% 97.11% 72.25, and 98.84%, respectively. 77.46% of participants had the prevention behaviors of diabetes complication at moderate level. The knowledge on diabetes and health belief model related to prevention behaviors of diabetes complication with statistical significance at the p-value <0.05.The factors predicting behaviors of diabetes complication were perceive benefit, perceived barrier, and perceive severity respectively, which predict behaviors of diabetes complication with 34.60%  with statistical significance at p-value < 0.05.