The Effectiveness of Health Promoting Program for Behaviors on Chronic Disease Preventative of The Middle Aged People, Thung Kula SubDistrict, Suwannaphum District, RoiEt Province

Abstract

             This quasi-experimental research was to examine the effectiveness of Health Promoting Program for Behaviors on Chronic Disease Preventative of The Middle Aged People, Thung Kula Subdistrict, Suwannaphum District, RoiEt Province. The samples were from 70 diabetes patients divided into experimental group and comparison group (35 patients in each). The implementation consisted of different activities which   knowledge concerning self-ability realization, self-conduct of health care, an ideal of food consumption, an ideal of exercises, and an ideal of emotional management. They studied from learning bases of a team in Subdistrict–Health Care that visited them for evaluating their health and a group of “DJ. Waisai Saichai Sukhaphap Phu Soong Ar Yoo” for supported them, observation and demonstration for 8 weeks. Four instruments were used in this study including demographic data form, knowledge; perceive self-efficacy and behavior questionnaires. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. T-test was used to analyze the different mean of knowledge, perceive self-efficacy and health behavior score.

      After participating of Health Promoting Program for Behaviors on Chronic Disease Preventative of The Middle Aged People revealed that an average mean of knowledge of chronic disease prevention, perceive self-efficacy and health behavior in experiment group statistically significant increased (p-value<0.001), also the scores were significant higher than the comparison group at (p-value<0.001).

                 In the summary, the key success factor of this research, it revealed that The Health Promoting

Program affecting for behaviors on chronic disease preventative of the middle aged people caused them

to perceive increasingly knowledge of chronic disease prevention, self-ability realization, and self-conduct of health care. Thus, this program has its sufficient efficiency and it should be used for developing health care behavior of middle aged old.