Factors Effecting to Blood Sugar Level Control among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus at Community Hospital, Phuket Province.

Abstract

      This Survey research by Cross-sectional study aimed to study factors effecting to blood sugar level control among diabetic mellitus type 2. Population in this study consisted of 1,769 diagnosed diabetic mellitus type 2 who had fasting plasma glucose higher than 140 mg/dl drawn from name list which be registered in diabetic mellitus clinical, at community hospitals, Phuket Province, and the sample size calculating used Daniel formula for 302 cases, and systematic random sampling was determine for collecting data. Data collected by questionnaires composed of characteristics, health behavior, health perception, and blood sugar level. In addition to check questionnaire standardization, validity was checked by 3 experts and try out testing reliability by cronbach’s coefficient alpha about 0.86. Data analyzed using statistical as Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and Stepwise multiple regression analysis.

      An association analyzed found that factors associated with blood sugar level control among diabetic mellitus type 2 with statistic significant level 0.05 including; health behavior (r=0.127, P-value=0.035) health perception (r=0.121, P-value=0.004), respectively. Prediction model analyzed reported that overall selected factors accounted for 71.6% of the variance blood sugar level control. Six selected factors including; food consumption, prevention of complication, exercise, perceived risk, perceived severity, perceived benefit, respectively.