Factors Predicting Health-Promoting Behaviors of Older Adults in Prawet District, Bangkok

Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to 1) study the mean and level of personal factors, predisposing factors, enabling factors, reinforcing factors, and health-promoting behaviors of older adults in the Prawet District, Bangkok. 2) identify factors predicting health-promoting behaviors of older adults. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional predictive correlational design. The sample consisted of 314 older adults aged 60-79, multi-stage random sampling, and data were collected from questionnaires: personal factors, predisposing factors, enabling factors, reinforcing factors, and health-promoting behaviors. The questionnaires were tested for reliability with Cronbach's alpha coefficient of .74, .72, .87, .75, .92, .81 and .87, respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlational analysis, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Results: This study found that 55.40 percent of older adults had health-promoting behavior of moderate level, (M = 58.51, SD = 8.66), the referred factors forecast older adults' health-promoting behavior at 60.2 percent (R2 = .60, p < .05), including the health-promoting policy of each service center (β = .27, p < .05), attitude towards health-promotion (β = .24, p < .05), social support (β = .22, p < .05), receiving information from various media (β = .16, p < .05), congenital diseases (β = -.19, p < .05), and access to public health services (β = .16, p < .05). Conclusion: The study results can be applied to organize activities to promote the health for older adults by forming the health-promoting policy of the organization, supporting the older adults to be aware of their responsibility in promoting their own health, and providing a place that is conducive to the implementation of health-promoting activities in the community for the older adults to be able to take care of themselves continuously.