SELF-CARE BEHAVIORS OF THE ELDERLY, SU-NGAI PADI DISTRICT, NARATHIWAT PROVINCE

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to investigate health promoting behavior 8 aspects of elderly at Su-ngaiPadi District, Narathiwat province and to study the relationship between personal factors and health promoting behavior 8 aspects of elderly at Su-ngaiPadi District, Narathiwat province. The samples were the elderly at Su-ngaiPadi District, Narathiwat province numbering 366 people. The simple random sampling method was used to select the sample. The instrument that used to collect information was a five scale rating of 41 questions. The reliability of the whole questionnaire was 0.90. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and Chi-square test.The results showed that the elderly had opinions on the health promoting behavior 8 aspects including food, air, ayurvedic medicine, habitually, detached, rich wit and career at a high level, due to bodily movement at a moderate level. Hypothesis testing showed that sex, age, marital status, education level, occupation, average income per month and disease condition had a correlation with the health promoting behaviors 8 aspects of the elderly and it was significantly different at 0.05. Elder who was Male, aged 60-69 years, married, graduated primary school and worked as trade had healthier behaviors than others.Moreover, religion was not correlated with the health promoting behaviors 8 aspects.