THE ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH BELIEF MODEL AND DRUGS USING BEHAVIOR IN ASTHMA PATIENT, PRASAT HOSPITAL, PRASAT DISTRICT, SURIN PROVINCE

Abstract

This study used descriptive study for examine the correlation between health belief model and drug using behavior in asthma patient at the asthma clinic in Prasad hospital, Prasad district, Surin province. Total samples in this study were 122 asthma patient that calculated by Daniel method. The questionnaire was used for collecting data. The data analysis was applied frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson correlation coefficient. The statistical significance was set at the 0.05 level. The results of this revealed that      1) The samples were equal between sex. The mean age of sample was 50.39years. The highest age was 70 years. The youngest age was 15 years. Most of them were married 74.8%, primary school level 52.2%, farmer 59.84%, estimate salary 7,932.38 bath/ month. The highest salary was 80,000 bath/ month, and the lowest has no salary. The mean duration of asthma was 7.74 years. The highest duration of asthma was 42 years, and the lowest was 1 year. There was moderate level of opinions about the overall of health belief model ( = 3.48, SD = 0.425). There were two aspects with high level of opinions including 1) perceived severity of asthma disease ( =3.86, SD = 0.649) and 2) perceived benefit of asthma medications ( = 3.75, SD = 0.398).    The aspects that had moderate level of opinions were   1) perceived risk of asthma complications ( = 3.61,   SD = 0.510) and 2) perceived barriers to asthma medication use (  = 2.71, SD = 0.801). The overall of medication use behavior was high level ( = 3.87, SD = 0.388). There were four aspects with high mean scores of medication use behavior including 1) Right patient ( = 4.32, SD = 0.693),   2) Right dose ( = 4.03, SD = 0.810), 3) Right method   ( = 4.13, SD = 0.564), and 4) Right time ( = 3.86,                   SD = 0.541). The moderate mean scores of medication use behavior were 1) Right drug ( = 3.42, SD = 0.693) and    2) Drug adherence ( = 3.48, SD = 0.522). They have a health belief model in the medium level ( = 3.48, SD = 0.425), and drug habit in the high level.      2) The correlation between health belief model and drug using behavior in asthma patient that shows perception of asthma severity (r = 0.429, p < 0.01), perception of barrier to use asthmatic drug (r = 0.438,  p < 0.01), risk perception of asthma complication dimension      (r = 0.227, p < 0.05) and perception of benefit when applied asthmatic drug (r = 0.211, p < 0.05)were statistically significant positive correlation with drug habit of asthmatic patient.