Factors related to the self-care behavior of the elderly in Tha Chang District, Singburi Province

Abstract

The purposes of this descriptive research was to studies the factors related to the self-care behavior of the elderly in Tha Chang District, Singburi Province. The samples consisted of 360 people. They were selected by using simple sampling. Data were collected between January - September 2019. The research instrument was a set of questionnaire included personal information, knowledge, attitudes in self-care of the elderly. The content validity conducted by 3 experts. The reliability by the Cronbach alpha coefficient was .83.  Data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation. And test the hypothesis with Pearson moment product correlation coefficient. The results showed that 48.89% of the elderly had high level of self-health care knowledge, 53.61% of the elderly had a high level of self-care attitude, and 75.83% of the elderly had moderate level of and self-care behaviors. It also found that gender, marital status, education level, occupation, and congenital disease were not significantly related to the self-health behavior of the elderly. Age was negatively related to self-care behavior of the elderly. The relatively low level (r = -.227) was statistically significant at the 0.01 level, income was significantly associated with the elderly self-care behavior at the 0.01 level. And found that knowledge of self-care and attitudes about self-care correlated with the self-care behavior of the elderly with statistical significance at the 0.01 level.