The effective of an Empowerment program on missed appointment of Diabetes mellitus patients in Pathumrat hospital

Abstract

Objective : The purpose of this quasi-experimental (The pretest-posttest control group design) design study were 1). To evaluate the effects of an empowerment program on missed appointment 2) study self-care behaviors 3). Study on FBS level.

Methods : This quasi-experimental research ; The subjects contained 60 of diabetes patients in Pathumrat hospital who met the inclusion criteria were matched pair and then randomly assigned to experimental group and control group, 30 subjects in each group. The experimental group received the empowerment program and the program was developed by the researcher and based on the process of empowerment as conceptualized by Miller’s theory. The experimental group received. The control group received the usual nursing care. Research instruments consisted of the empowerment program, missed appointment behaviors questionnaire, source of power questionnaire, self-care behaviors questionnaire and report of FBS level. These instruments were validated for content validity by 3 professional experts.The chronbach’s alpha coefficients reliability of the three latter instrument was .84,.88 and .81, respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-test.

Results : major findings of this study were as follows : 1). The missed appointment behaviors of diabetes mellitus patients who received the empowerment program was significantly higher than those who received regular caring at the .05 level. 2). The self-care behaviors of diabetes mellitus patients who received the empowerment program was significantly higher than those who received regular caring at the .05 level. 3). FBS level of diabetes mellitus patients who received the empowerment program was significantly higher than those who received regular caring at the .05 level.

Summary and discussion : Empowerment is independent role of nursing to help patients. Empowerment program has effective to make motivation for cure and have a system to change the patient to have self-efficacy, increase self - care, appointment and decrease FBS level.

Keywords : 1. Empowerment program 2. Missed appointment behaviors 3. Diabetes patients 4. Self-care behaviors 5. FBS level.