| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 商學組 === 103 === Obesity is one of the greatest public health problems in the world. The prevalence of obesity in Taiwan is increasing these decades. Diabetes correlates closely with obesity. In this study, we focused the diabetes patients in a primary clinic in Tao-Yuan city, Taiwan, and tried to research the cognition and behavior regarding to weight control in them. We want to develop a weight control- based diabetes care model after this work.
The issues we want to study are as below:
1. The prevalence of overweight and obesity in these diabetes patients?
2. Do they know obesity in one of the causes of diabetes? And do they know that weight loss can improve diabetes condition?
3. Has they received any obesity treatment before? And how many patients are on a diet now?
4. Do the diabetes patients want their physicians to discuss body weight issue with them?
5. What percentage of diabetes patients might pay for obesity treatment? And how many new Taiwan dollars they could pay?
6. What kinds of quantified self about weight control they like to adopt?
Questionnaire was developed by the problems we want to discuss. And the subjects who visited the clinic during 1st to 31st July 2015 were invited to fill out the questionnaire. All the data was keyed in in Excel 2010 edition and was transformed to SAS 9.2 edition for further analysis.
Finally, 113 patients completed the questionnaires. They were 54(48%) male gender and 59(52%) female gender. The mean age was 58.2 ± 12.7 years old. The mean BMI was 26.9 ± 4.3. The percentage of the subjects whose BMI ≧ 24 was 74.3%. 54(47.8%) subjects knew that obesity is a cause of diabetes. And 81(71.7%) answered weight loss had good influence in diabetes control. 47(41.6) had the experience of weight control, and the main methods were on a diet and exercise. 30(35.7%) among the 84 whose BMI ≧ 24 has a weight control program now, and the methods were on a diet and exercise also. 74(65.5%) accept their physician to talk weight control issue to them. 27(32%) is willing to pay for weight control program with a mean of 3046 NT dollars/month. The most accepted new methods in weight control were: weight daily, quantified self in walking steps per day, and open information of self.
Based on the information gathered from this study, we will keep going to develop a new weight control program for overweight diabetes patients.
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