พฤติกรรมการดูแลสุขภาพตนเองของผู้สูงอายุ อำเภอเมือง จังหวัดสุราษฎร์ธานี

บทคัดย่อ

This research aims to study the self-care behaviors of elders in Mueang District, Surat Thani Province in order to 1) study the self-care behaviors of elders, 2) study relationships between personal qualities and self-care behaviors and 3) study the predisposing factors, enabling factors and reinforcing factors with the self-care behaviors.The representative samples included 400 elders in the social bound group. The research applied Yamane Formula table in determining the sample size. The standard deviation was determined at 5%. According to the table, representative samples was 390 people selected by the Sample Random Sampling among 400 people. The research instrument was questionnaire created by the researcher. Its qualities were reviewed by 3 experts. Its IOC was 1.00. The reliability coefficient was 0.7 after being tested by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. Sample group’s general data was analyzed by the Descriptive Statistics including frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The inferential statistics included Chi-square and Pearson correlation Coefficient. Relationships between predisposing factors, enabling factors and reinforcing factors and the self-care behaviors were analyzed by Pearson’s Product moment correlation Coefficient.

The study found that the self-care behaviors of elders were at high level. The personal qualities including age, education background, income, income adequacy and income source related to their self-care behaviors with statistical significance at the 0.01 level. The predisposing factors, enabling factors and reinforcing factors related to their self-care behaviors with statistical significance at the 0.001 level. The reinforcing factors should be underlined in health news learning and social activities participation. Also, the enabling factors should be underlined in access to health service and health suggestion because the elders’ predisposing factors had been at high level already.