Determinants of preventive health behavior and morbidity among the elderly in Bangkok Metropolis
by Somchai Lakananuruk
Title: | Determinants of preventive health behavior and morbidity among the elderly in Bangkok Metropolis |
Author(s): | Somchai Lakananuruk |
Advisor: | Suwanlee Piampiti, advisor |
Degree name: | Doctor of Philosophy |
Degree level: | Doctoral |
Degree discipline: | Population and Development |
Degree department: | School of Applied Statistics |
Degree grantor: | National Institute of Development Administration |
Issued date: | 1999 |
Publisher: | National Institute of Development Administration |
Abstract: |
The purposes of this study are firstly, to investigate the 1976-1996 morbidity trend of the elderly living in Bangkok Metropolis and to study the essential factors affecting the preventive health behavior of the elderly. The results obtained from the study on the morbidity tendency of the elderly in Bangkok Metropolis, using the data gained from the Report of the Health and Welfare Survey of the National Statistical Office, indicates an increasing rate of morbidity among the elderly living in Bangkok Metropolis (the highest rate rose to 28.0 percent in 1991). Most diseases in the elderly were the diseases of the respiratory system, cardiovascular diseases, and diseases of the musculoskelatal system and connective tissue. Chronic diseases that attacked the elderly most were hypertension, back pain, diabets mellitus, heart disease, and peptic ulcer. To study factors affecting the preventive health behavior and morbidity of the elderly in Bangkok Metropolis, the primary data was exploited. Multi-stage sampling was used to select of 600 elderly aged 60 years and over living in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area. Both path analysis and logistic regression statistical techniques were employed in analyzing the affecting factors the preventive health behavior and morbidity among the elderly. The findings showed that the factors affecting the preventive health behavior were sex, type of community, perceived benefits and barriers in preventive health behavior, self-efficacy expectation, the belief in chance health locus of control, receiving information on the basic elements of personal health from mass media, and the taking care of the elderly's health by their families. The external variables were sex and type of community/residence which effect both directly and indirectly the preventive health behavior among the elderly. The results of logistic regressing model predicting morbidity among the elderly, showed that most of the variables included in the analysis were not significant predictors of morbidity. In fact, only 4 of the 10 independent variables attained significance, i.e. sex, type of community/residence, chronic disease, and preventive health behavior. |
Description: |
Methodology: Frequency, Mean, Standard deviation, Path analysis, Logistic regression analysis |
Subject(s): | Aged -- Health and hygiene -- Thailand -- Bangkok
Aged -- Diseases -- Thailand -- Bangkok |
Resource type: | Dissertation |
Extent: | xviii, 201 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm |
Type: | Text |
File type: | application/pdf |
Language: | eng |
Rights: | ผลงานนี้เผยแพร่ภายใต้ลิขสิทธิ์ของสถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์ |
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Rights holder(s): | National Institute of Development Administration |
URI: | http://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/299 |
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