Abstract:
The purposes of this predictive correlational research were to study chest pain self-care agency coronary heart disease patients, northeast region, and to predict between perceived health status, hardiness , knowledge of chest pain self-care, social support, and chest pain self-care agency among coronary heart disease patients. One hundred and ten out-patients with coronary heart disease were recruited from a multi-stage random sample, who were recruited in the medicine clinic at Khonkhean Hospital, Udonthanee Hospital, Loei Hospital, and Sakhonnakorn Hospital. The instruments used for data collection were demographic information, questionnaire of perceived health status, questionnaire of hardiness, questionnaire of knowledge of chest pain self-care, questionnaire of social support, and questionnaire of chest pain self-care agency among coronary heart disease patients. All questionnaires were tested for content validities by five panel of experts, and the reliabilities were 0.75, 0.81, 0.70, 0.70, and 0.82, respectively. Descriptive statistics (Percentage, mean, and standard deviation), and Hierarchical multiple regression were used to analyze data. The major findings were as follows: 1.Mean score of chest pain self-care agency among coronary heart disease patients was at a moderate level ( = 11.55, SD = 3.17). 2.There were positively significant relationships between knowledge of chest pain self-care were positively related to chest pain self-care agency among coronary heart disease patients at the level .01 (r =.746). Social support and hardiness were positively related to chest pain self-care agency among coronary heart disease patients at the level of 05 (r = .253, and r = .202, respectively). 3.There were no significant relationships between perceived health status and chest pain self-care agency among coronary heart disease patients (r = -.35). 4. Perceived health status, hardiness , knowledge of chest pain self-care and social support were prediction for chest pain self-care agency among coronary heart disease patients. Variable accounted for 55.9 % of total variance chest pain self-care agency among coronary heart disease patients.