Obstacles and Motivations for modified health behaviors in who Abdominal obesity

Abstract

            This research is phenomenological research. The objective has to study health behavior, In-depth factors of obstacles and motivation for changing health behavior of an abdominal obesity in the Klong Yong 1 community. The sample was aged over 19 year old, lived in Klong Yong 1 community, had a waist circumference greater than 90 cm for men and greater than 80 cm for women. Selected of sample by snowball technique, consisted of 13 persons. Data were collected from December 2018-January 2019. The research tool is in-depth semi-structured interview, analyzed by content analysis.

            The results found that most of samples were female 76.92% mean age 49 years old. Health    behavior of who abdominal obesity including; 1) in term of eating habit, they tend to eat sweet, salty, eat few vegetable, and not eating on time, skipped breakfast, eat late at night, 2) in term of physical activity, their habit was intermittent and low physical activity, and 3) sleep behavior, sleepless and poor sleep quality. For In-depth factors of obstacles and motivation for changing health behavior of who abdominal obesity consists of 2 issues include; 1) internal factors were thoughts & belief’s persons, and their occupation and 2) external factors were familial characteristics could not support or facilitate health behavior modification. Motivation for modified health behavior in who abdominal obesity was self-health awareness.

            These findings should be applied as a guideline for health promotion among people with obesity in the community, by focusing on awareness for individuals health to create ideas and beliefs about healthy behavior and enhance families participation health to individual motivation for modified health behavior.