Abstract:
This research was conducted to study the factors related to health behavior
among patients with congestive heart failure. Penders Health Promotion was used as the
research framework. Purposive sampling was used to select 100 patients with congestive
heart failure from the cardiology clinic, out-patient departments of Bangkok Metropolitan
Administration Medicine College and Vajira Hospital. The following instruments were used
to collect the data: the demographic data assessment form, the knowledge of health
promoting behavior questionnaire, the perceived benefits and perceived barriers from health
promoting behavior with heart failure questionnaire, the perceived self-efficacy with heart
failure questionnaire, and the practiced health promoting behaviors with heart failure
questionnaire. Data were analyzed in terms of frequency, percentage, mean, standard
deviation and Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient.
The findings of this study showed that the respondents had a very high level of
knowledge of health promoting behaviors ( X =91.91, SD=6.97), a high score of perceived
benefits from health promoting behavior after heart failure ( X =43.17, SD=5.74), a moderate
score of perceived barriers from health promoting behavior after heart failure ( X =25.84,
SD=5.68), a very high score of perceived self-efficacy with heart failure ( X =200.19,
SD=21.91), and a high score of practiced health promoting behaviors ( X =46.42, SD=6.95). In
addition, the results revealed that knowledge about health promoting behaviors, perceived
benefits in health promoting behavior, and perceived self-efficacy were positively related to
perceived health promoting behaviors with heart failure at a 0.01 level of statistical
significance (r=0.438, 0.324, 0.489 respectively). The item: perceived barriers to health
promoting behavior, was negatively related to practiced health promoting behavior with heart
failure, at a 0.05 level of statistical significance (r=-0.205). It could be explained that patients
with congestive heart failure who have a very high level of knowledge of health promoting
behaviors would contribute to the perceived benefits in health promoting behaviors, and
reduce perceived barriers in health promoting behavior with heart failure. In addition,
patients were highly confident in their self-efficacy in health promoting behavior, so they had
a high level of practiced health promoting behavior.
The findings of this study suggest that there is a benefit in promoting
knowledge regarding proper health behaviors among patients with congestive heart failure, in
order to improve perceived benefits, self-efficacy and reduce perceived barriers.