Factors Associated with Health Promotion Behaviors of the Elderly in Municipalities of SuphanBuri, SuphanBuri Province

Abstract

This research was a survey research. The objectives were to study health promotion behaviors. And factors affecting behavior promotion the health of the elderly in Suphanburi Municipality. Data collection of 370 elderly people was collected from the stratified random sampling. From the number of 4,654 elderly people by using Taro Yamane's. The tools used in the study are questionnaires, 101 section, Reliability = 0.75. Statistics used in data analysis were descriptive statistics to include percentage, mean, standard deviation and Inferential statistics to include Pearson Product Moment Correlation and multiple regression analysis by a step-by-step method.

The study indicated that the results showed that the level of health promotion behaviors of the elderly was at a much level ( =3.79, S.D.=0.74) Gender, marital status, education Level, occupation and salary of the elderly Predisposing factors and Enabling factors were not significant related to health promotion behaviors of the elderly at the significant level of .05.The stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that Reinforcing Factors on service factor (r=0.485 ), family factors (r=0.046) and economic factor (r=0.016 ) were the most powerful variable being predicted health promotion behaviors of the elderly at 23.50 percent of the variables. (p<0.01). Confidence an important factors which stimulate the health promotion behaviors of the elderly was receiving the good service factor, family factors and economic factor. This finding should benefit in planning of health promotion behaviors of the elderly in the future.