Health Beliefs and Health Behaviors Among Persons with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Keywords:
Health beliefs, Health behaviors, Persons, Systemic Lupus ErythematosusAbstract
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic incurable disease. Appropriate health behaviors can constrain exacerbations and decrease complications in SLE. Health beliefs are factors that promote appropriate health behaviors. The purpose of this correlational descriptive study was to examine health beliefs, health behaviors, and relationships between the health beliefs and health behaviors among persons with SLE. The participants were SLE patients receiving treatment at an outpatient clinic, Lampang Hospital between December 2017 and March 2018. Eighty-five participants were recruited by criterion purposive sampling. The study instruments consisted of: 1) Personal Information Questionnaire, 2) the SLE Health Behaviors Questionnaire, 3) the Perceived Susceptibility to relapse and complications from SLE Questionnaire, 4) the Perceived Severity to relapse and complications from SLE Questionnaire, 5) the Perceived Benefits of Health Behavior Questionnaire, and 6) the Perceived Barriers of Health Behavior Questionnaire. All instruments were developed by the researcher. The content validity was confirmed by a panel of experts in the field and reliability was tested prior to collecting data. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s Rank Correlation.
The results revealed that
- The participants had a high level of health beliefs in aspect of the perceived susceptibility to relapse and complications from SLE, the perceived severity to relapse and complications from SLE, and the perceived benefits of health behaviors; however, the perceived barriers of health behaviors was at a moderate level.
- The participants had a high level of health behaviors.
- Considering aspect of health belief, the perceived severity to relapse and complications from SLE had a negative relationship at a low level with health behaviors (rs=-.24, p=.03) and the perceived barriers of health behaviors had a negative relationship at a high level with health behaviors (rs=-.53, p<.001). However, the perceived susceptibility to relapse and complications from SLE and the perceived benefits of health behaviors were not related to health behavior.
These findings could be used as basic data for health personnel in providing interventions to eliminate barriers in health behaviors in order to promote SLE patients to perform appropriate health behaviors.
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