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Abstract

Abstract

Purpose

The purposes of this research were 1) to compare the effects of health behavior modification program on the knowledge and attitude of health behavior between the result of pre and post-test of the experiment group and between experimental and the controlled groups and 2) to compare the effects of health behavior modification program on the health behavior in experimental group in the baseline, experimental and follow up period and between experimental and the controlled groups.

Methods

The sample used in the research was students at education faculty of Naresuan University who are overweight. The 60 students were purposively selected from those voluntarily applying to take part in the research, and were divided into experimental and controlled groups by simple random sampling drawing lots. However, when the project was finished there were 27 and 25 participants in the experimental and controlled group respectively. Collecting data were from tests and attitude questionnaires answered before and after the modification program. The participants recorded their health behavior which covered their diet and their exercise from baseline to the experimental and follow up periods. The data were analyzed using two-way MANOVA with repeated measures in the change of the health behavior. The differences of the changed averages of the knowledge and the attitude towards health behavior by testing the t-test.  

Results

1. The comparison of health behavior knowledge and attitude in the pre-test between the experimental group and the controlled group showed not statistically significant difference at the .05 level. But when compared the results in the post-test, it showed that the experimental group had higher average score of health behavior knowledge and attitude than the controlled group at .05 of statistical significant level. The comparison between the result of pre and post-test of the experiment group showed that it had higher average post-test score of health behavior knowledge and attitude than the pre-test at .05 of statistical significant level.


2. The comparison of health behavior between the experimental and the controlled groups found in the baseline was not statistically significant difference at the .05 level. But in the experimental and follow up period the scores of the health behavior of experimental group were better than the controlled group in diet and exercise at .05 of statistically significant level. The health behavior tendencies were that the experimental group's diet will decrease while the exercise showed increasing trend. The experimental and following up periods were significantly different from the baseline at 0.05 of statistically significant level.