Study of Health Education Model on Knowledge, Beliefs, and Self-care among Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Srikhoraphum Hospital

Abstract

Introduction: The Diabetic patients still lack of knowledge about the Diabetes and have incorrectly beliefs about the Diabetes, including having inadequacy of self-care attention. These are the reasons why researchers are interested in studying the forms of providing health study to the Diabetic patients by using the Diabetes philosophy and health beliefs in order to assign the content of providing health study. And then select the appropriate teaching methods to the patients in order to encourage their learning and have the correct health understanding, which leads to have self-care attention in controlling and protecting the risks intervening from other diseases.
Objective: To compare the knowledge, beliefs, self-care attention and the Diabetic patients disease control within the sample groups and between each sample groups both before and after providing health study in different education forms.
Research Model: Semi-experiment Research Method
Place of Study: Diabetes Special Clinic, Srikhoraphum Hospital, Surin Province
Study Method: Selecting the non-insulin Diabetic patients by easy random. The sample group is divided into 3 groups. The first sample group receives health study by heaving group discussing together with receiving the Diabetic manual, 13 members. The second sample group receives the health study by having video presentation with questions and answers session including receiving the Diabetes and self-care brocheses, 14 members. The last group is the control group receiving the normal health study from the staffs in out patient department, 14 members. Evaluate the experiment by applying both interviewing method and the blood test checking the synthetic protein level in Hemoglobin (HbAic) method both before and after providing health study in the different education forms.
Statistics Technique: Analyze the data by using the paired t-test and the One-way Analysis of Variance.
The Research Results:
1. Before the experiment, the Mean of knowledge, beliefs, patient self-care and the control of Diabetes within 3 group are not significant in statistics.
2. The Mean of knowleddge, beliefs, and the control of the Diabetic patients in the first sample group have some differences in significant level after the experiment (p < 0.05). For patient self-care of the first group, there is not any differences between before and after the experiment.
3. The Mean of knowledge, beliefs, patient self-care and disease control of the Diabetic patients in the second sample group have some differences in significant level after the experiment (p < 0.05).
4. The Mean of knowledge, beliefs, patient self-care and disease control of the Diabetic patients of the control group do not have any differences in statistics within the control group between before and after the experiment.
5. After the experiment, we find that the Mean of knowledge, beliefs, patient self-care, and the control of the Diabetes in the second sample group have some differences from the first sample group and the control group with significant level in statistics (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: From this research results, we suggest that we should educate the health study group by applying the video presentation method together with . questions and answers sessions including distributing the Diabetes brochure to the Diabetic patients, Srikhoraphum Hospital, Surin Province.
Key words: Diabetes mellitus, Diabetic patient, Health Education model, Knowledge, Beliefs, and Self-care among Diabetes Mellitus Patient