Effects of a complication prevention program among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients, Nong Khaen Subdistrict, Pathumrat District Roi Et Province.

Abstract

Diabetes is the direct cause of death for 1.5 million people worldwide in 2019. If patients with diabetes, diabetes for a long time, It can harm the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nervous system. This research is a quasi-experimental research and aim to study effects of a complication prevention program among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients, Nong Khaen Subdistrict, Pathumrat District Roi Et Province by an application of Health Belief Model for develop behavior to prevent diabetes complications. The subjects were 30 type 2 diabetes patients who live in Nong Khaen Subdistrict, Pathumrat District, Roi Et Province. Duration time for intervention 12 weeks. This research comprise of different activities such as lecture with media, watch video, group discussion and participated to build guidelines for diabetic controlling. Data collecting by questionnaires and data analysis, general data used descriptive statistics, and compare the difference of mean scores within the group using Paired Sample t-test statistics to determine the 95% confidence level.

After experiment found that patients had mean score of perceived risk of complication, perceived severe of complication, perceived benefit of complicated prevention, barrier s of complicated prevention and practiced for complicated prevention significantly more than before the experiment (p-value < 0.001). Recommendations this program can be applied to prevent the risk of patients with type 2 diabetes.