Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify health beliefs, self-care behaviors and the relation between health beliefs and self-care behaviors of 30 tuberculosis patients who attended at a tuberculosis clinic of Maelao Hospital, 2012. A descriptive correlational research were collected data by questionnaire according to health beliefs model. The reliability of a research was determined using Cronbach’s coefficient alpha. The data were analyzed by a descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.
The results showed that 76.67% of tuberculosis patients were male, 73.33% were in worked age, 63.33% had a primary education, 70.00 % were married , 66.67% had a single family, 36.67% had no income or had less income than 25,000 baht per year and most of them had never be sick as tuberculosis. The total of health beliefs and self-care behaviors were measured at good level. There was not a significant correlation between the total of health beliefs and self-care behaviors of Tuberculosis Patient at .05 level (r= .344, p= .062).
The results of this research provided necessary and useful basic information used to improve the effective and service system of tuberculosis clinic.
Keywords : Tuberculosis Patients, Health Belief, Self-care Behaviors
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify health beliefs, self-care behaviors and the relation between health beliefs and self-care behaviors of 30 tuberculosis patients who attended at a tuberculosis clinic of Maelao Hospital, 2012. A descriptive correlational research were collected data by questionnaire according to health beliefs model. The reliability of a research was determined using Cronbach’s coefficient alpha. The data were analyzed by a descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.
The results showed that 76.67% of tuberculosis patients were male, 73.33% were in worked age, 63.33% had a primary education, 70.00 % were married , 66.67% had a single family, 36.67% had no income or had less income than 25,000 baht per year and most of them had never be sick as tuberculosis. The total of health beliefs and self-care behaviors were measured at good level. There was not a significant correlation between the total of health beliefs and self-care behaviors of Tuberculosis Patient at .05 level (r= .344, p= .062).
The results of this research provided necessary and useful basic information used to improve the effective and service system of tuberculosis clinic.
Keywords : Tuberculosis Patients, Health Belief, Self-care Behaviors
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