THE EFFECTS OF MOTIVATION INTERVIEWING TO CHANGE SMOKING BEHAVIOR OF PATIENT IN CHRONIC ILLNESS IN MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC , SI PRACHAN HOSPITAL

Abstract

The study was a Quasi-experimental in the chronic illness patients who visited in the Mental Health clinic, at Sriprachan Hospital. The objective were to examine the effects of motivation interviewing program for changing the smoking behavior and to compare with smoking consumptive and the Patients’ Pi CO level before and after participating in program for 5 times in 3 months. Analysis method was using a paired t-test for dependent sample.

The patients character was Male in 92.31% which of 61.54% have averaged ages 60 year-old. As the motivation evalutation ranges from 01 to 04 for changing the smoking behavior was showing that 73.07 % of patients selected at level 3-4 before attending the program, and 57.69 % was 3 after attending the program.

The study outcome found that 57.69 % of patients expected to cut down smoking in gradulally, and 42.31 % expected to stop smoking immediately. As 57.69 % of patients was able to stop smoking after attending program, and 38.46 % was able to agree on smoking consumptive reduction. Additonally, the results comparison of smoking consumtive before and after attending the motivation interviewing program; Before attending the program was 13.94 % and 1.56 % was attending. The t-test was 5.169 that the significantly different in P < 0.1, value, as 4.30 % of Patients’s PICO level showed before attending and 1.40 % of patients’ PiCO showed after attending program. The test was 4.851 %ahowed the significantly different as P< 0.1.

Recommendation for further study:

The interesting researcher should have extended and implemented the program at least 6 months, in order to re-smoking preventive in patients who have been stopped smoking. As motivation interviewing of changing on smoking behavior in patients who experienced in chronic illness disease these will be implementation for patients who have involved with any addictive substance.