The Effects of Reducing Diabetic Risk Group by Diabetic Menu with Self-efficacy Program on Changing Food Consumption Behavior in Pre diabetics Mellitus type 2 At Abhisit village no.2,Tambol Talad, Muang District, Mahasarakham Province.

Abstract

The research is a quasi-experimental research and is done for studying how the reducing diabetic menu and self-efficacy program have effects on food consumption behavior change of pre diabetics mellitus type at Apisit village NO.2, Tambol Talad, Muang district, Mahasarakham province. The sample size was equally conducted from 84 people from 2 different villages those are Apisit village NO.2 and Sri-Mahasarakham village. The research instruments comprise
of 3 types of questionnaire those are food consumption (validity = 0.7219), self-efficacy of food consumption (α = 0.9134) and food consumption behavior (α = 0.7800). The data was gathered from pre-test and post-test then was analyzed and interpret to percentage, average, standard deviation, Independent T-test and Paired T-test. The findings indicated that food consumption knowledge, self-efficacy and food consumption behavior of Apisit village NO.2 are far more increasing significantly when compared with Sri-Mahasarakhamûs (p-value < 0.05). The concept of this research is consumption behavior improvement by developing activities to match the way of life in the area. The research suggested that the effects of reducing diabetic menu and self-efficacy program can be applied with food consumption behavior and will be useful for other group of pre diabetic in different area.