Background
and Aim:
Diabetes is a disease with long cardiovascular, renal, eye and neural
complications.
Management of the disease requires a certain degree of self-regulation. The aim
of this study was to investigate the predicting factors related to self-care
behaviors among type 2 diabetic patients based on Health Belief
Model(HBM).
Material
and Methods: This cross-sectional
study was carried out on 390 diabetic patients referred to Hamadan Diabetes
Research Center who were recruited with a simple sampling method. The
participants completed a self-administered questionnaire including demographic
characteristics, self-care behaviors and HBM construct. Data was analyzed by
SPSS-19 using coefficient correlation, T-Test, One-way ANOVA, liner regression.
Results: According to the results, Health
model explained 29.6% of the variance in frequency of self-care behaviors. Perceived
self-efficacy, perceived severity, perceived barrier and perceived
susceptibility were the best significant predictors (P <0.05). Significant differences in average score of self-regulation behaviors in related to education level and family history in
last care were seen (P <0.05).
Conclusion: These findings suggest that applying
Health Belief Model would be an efficient tool for predicting self-care
behaviors among diabetic patients.
