Factors Associated with Self-Care Behaviors of Elderly Community Diabetes in a District of Taipei City

• Main Authors: Chau - Jung Wu, 吳昭蓉
• Other Authors: Chin-Chien Tseng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48645774692732764181

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系在職進修碩士班 === 100 === This thesis research aims to investigate the Taipei Administrative Region of the elderly diabetes self-care behaviors and related factors, and research tool for self-care to know the knowledge, attitude and behavior scale. Subjects in this study were elderly residents over 65 years old and were screened high in blood pressure, blood sugar, blood cholesterol and diagnosed with diabetes. Questionnaires were colledted through face-to-face interviews. A total 267 effective samples were collected. The main results are as follows: 1.The subjects had an average 78% correct answer in self-care knowledge. Among them, complications prevention and treatment knowledge score were the highest, followed by control diet, exercise, and self-monitoring of blood glucose. The lowest scores was knowledge of drug use. 2.Self-care attitude were positive for subjects. The highest score among the self-care attitute was to the attitude to exercise, followed by drug use, self-monitoring of blood sugar, complications prevention and treatment. The lowest score was diet control. 3.Self-care behaviors were positive for subjects. The highest score among the self-care behaviors was drug use behavior, followed by exercise, diet control, self-monitoring of blood sugar. The lowest score was prevention of complications and treatment. 4.Subjects' self-care knowledge had significant difference with subjects’ ages, education level, family history, waistline, experiences of taking diabetes lectures, experiences of using glucose meter, and duration of diabetes. 5.Subjects' self-care attitude, had significant difference with subjects’ gender, age, education level, family history, experiences of taking diabetes lectures, and experiences of using glucose meter. 6.Subjects' self-care behavior, had significant difference with subjects’ age, educational attainment, family history, main income source, experiences of taking diabetes lectures, experiences of using glucose meter and regular exercise. 7.There were significant coorelations between subjects' self-care knowledge, attitudes and behavior. Among the three, knowledge and behavior had the highest correlation, followed by behavior and attitudes. Attitudes and knowledge had the lowest correlation. The better the subjects’self-care knowkedge, the better their self-care attitute, and self-care behavior. 8.The prediction factors could significantly predict self-care behavior by an explaination power of 45.8%.