Utilizing the health belief model to predict behaviors of receiving retina examination among diabetes patients
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Lin, Pei-Hsuan
Abstract
Objectives: Based on health belief model (HBM), the research aims to explore and clarify the factors contributing to diabetic patients’ regularity of receiving retina examinations. Methods: The cross-section survey is majorly adopted throughout the research targeting a total of 107 diabetic patients with the self-developed HBM Questionnaires. The chi-square test, independent-sample t test, and logistic regression were used to analyse the data and conclude the correlation among research variables and the regularity the diabetic patients receive retina examination. Results: The inference founded on the logistic regression is diabetic patients in the habit of self-checking blood sugar, better-informed about the disease, and action cues from paramedics are more likely to undergo retina examination by a significant degree. Conclusions: To promote the regularity of diabetic patients receiving retina examinations, patients should be better-informed about the knowledge of diabetic retinopathy. For those neither able to self-check blood sugar on a regular basis nor remember to return for diabetes follow-ups, or those at the early stages of diabetes, it is required to forcefully transfer them to the ophthalmology department to fulfil the retina examination.
Subjects
diabetes
diabetic retinopathy
retina examination
health belief model
cue to action
SDGs
Type
thesis
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