Factors Predicting Health Behaviors among Persons with Diabetes Mellitus during the Pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019
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Health Behaviors, Diabetes mellitus, Corona Virus-2019 PandemicAbstract
This research aimed to study the predictive factors of health behaviors of people with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. One hundred and twenty people who were diagnosed with diabetes and visited the Diabetes Outpatient Clinic, Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital, the Thai Red Cross Society, Chonburi were recruited using simple random sampling. The study instruments consisted of demographic and health status, the perceived risk of COVID-19 infection in diabetic persons, the perceived severity of COVID-19 on diabetes, self-efficacy to perform health behaviors, social support, perceived receiving information, and health behaviors of diabetic persons. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis statistics with the enter method.
The results revealed that the mean score of overall health behaviors during the Covid-19 pandemic was 43.19 (SD = 9.27). Factors including the perceived risk of COVID-19 infection in diabetic persons, the perceived severity of COVID-19 on diabetes, self-efficacy in performing health behaviors, social support, and receiving information could explain 40.5% of the variance of appropriate health behaviors among persons with diabetes (R² = .405, F(5,114) = 15.52, p < .001). Perceived self-efficacy in performing health behaviors yielded the strongest effect on behaving health behaviors (β = .415, p<.001), followed by social support (β = .228, p = .01) and perceived receiving information (β = .198, p =.02).
The findings could be used as a guide to promote appropriate health behaviors. Self-efficacy in health behavior practice and social support are still important and need to be focused on. In addition, promoting patients to access important information appropriately, especially in the context of having a variety of information, is another issue that healthcare personnel should consider.
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