The effectiveness of mutual goal setting nursing program for compliance with tuberculosis treatment plan among pulmonary tuberculosis patients, inpatients department Sukhothai Hospital.

Abstract

Abstract

          The objective of this study was to develop and examine the effectiveness of mutual goal setting nursing program for compliance with tuberculosis treatment plan among pulmonary tuberculosis patients inpatients department Sukhothai hospital. The study was conducted in 3 phases. The first phase aimed to assess compliance with tuberculosis treatment plan among pulmonary tuberculosis patients. The samples were 7 tuberculosis patients recruited by purposive sampling. Collecting data by questionnaire and analysis by frequency, percentage mean, standard deviation, maximum, minimum. The result showed that male (57.10%) average age 66.57 years old (S.D.=25.38) the samples had a lower level of knowledge (42.90%) and lower level of compliance with tuberculosis treatment plan (74.10%). The second phase was to construct mutual goal setting nursing program which consisted of the study on needs suggested by pulmonary tuberculosis patients and the content validity which was approved by experts. The resulting program consisted of 8 steps: (1) Goal-oriented interaction (2) Assessment (3) Having decision making skill (4) Joint problem formulation (5) The choice of practice (6) Planning/Setting goal (7) Implementing and (8) Evaluation. And content validity (IOC) was between 0.5-1. The third phase was to evaluate of mutual goal setting nursing program for compliance with tuberculosis treatment plan; and it was found that there was a significant increasing the average score of knowledge and compliance with tuberculosis treatment plan after the intervention (p<0.001).