The effect of using the self-care program for diabetic patients on knowledge and self-care behavior of diabetic patients at Ban Khok Sawang Subdistrict Health Promoting Hospital, Khok Sawang Subdistrict, Pla Pak District, Nakhon Phanom Province.

Abstract

      Research on the effects of self-care programs for diabetic patients who received services at Pla Pak Hospital, Pla Pak District, Nakhon Phanom Province. This research was a quasi-experimental research with a one-group pre- and post-test design. The objective was to compare the mean knowledge scores and self-care behaviors of diabetic patients in the experimental group before and after participating in the diabetic self-care program. The sample group consisted of 65 registered diabetic patients who received services at Ban Khok Sawang Subdistrict Health Promotion Hospital. The research instruments consisted of Self-care program for diabetic patients consists of a self-care manual for diabetic patients, a diabetes education plan, and data collection tools. Including general information questionnaires, diabetes knowledge questionnaires for diabetic patients, and self-care behavior questionnaires for diabetic patients. Personal data of the sample group were analyzed by descriptive data analysis, including mean, standard deviation, and percentage, and comparative data analysis of the differences between the mean values ​​of knowledge scores. and the self-care behavior of the experimental group before and after joining the program using statistics to test the change in knowledge scores and self-care behavior of the experimental group after the experiment using t-test statistics.

      The study results showed that after participating in the self-care program for the experimental group of diabetic patients, the average score of diabetic knowledge scores was at a good level, and the self-care behaviors of diabetic patients were consistently improved and significantly higher than before participating in the program at the p<.05 statistical significance level.