| Abstract: | Diabetes has become one of the most common diseases in our country. It not only effects patient?s health and living quality, but also becomes an economically heavy burden for the person and the society. This research through diabetic?s healthy activities is expected to understand the differences of the result that the patients control their diabetes. It would provide a reference to the hospitals where patients receive clinical diagnosis, and also provide a reference to the diabetes who do every day medical care.
This research is made after consulting relevant documents. Based on the framework of this research, a structured questionnaire conforming to the research purpose is designed. The questionnaire is supported with Likert 5-interval scale. The questionnaire fillers may select ?completely agree?, ?agree?, ?no comments?,
?disagree? or ?completely disagree?.The researched subjects are the diabetic outpatients in National Taiwan University, Cheng Kung University Hospital and Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital and TZU-AI General Hospital in Yunlin area, Taiwan. As it is not easy to get the diabetic samples, this research is made by convenience sampling. In 2007 a questionnaire interview was made from June 6 to June 22. The well-trained interviewers proceeded one-to-one interviews, and got valid questionnaires from the patients. Total 122 copies of the valid questionnaire are received.
The finding of the research shows ? (1) Females pay more attentions to the medical control and treatment than males. (2) For the diabetics aged from 41 to 55, their main medically cognitive information source comes from non-professional channels, such as relatives, friends, TV programs, network and broadcast stations. (3) Education degree can?t cause heavy dominance difference to medicine cognitive information channel and healthy behavior model. (4) Engaged in the educational, government or soldier diabetics pay more attention to non-professional counseling channel. (5) The high income diabetics are more dependants on non-professional medically cognitive information chancels, and diabetics of the monthly income in 20000-30000 pay more attention to supplementary food. The diabetics that the main medicine cognitive information channel comes from professional doctor or medical personnel take medicine and subsequent visit on time.Diabetics have professional medically cognitive information sources, such as professional doctors and medical personnel, and non-professional medically cognitive information sources, such as relatives, friends, TV programs, network and broadcast stations. All of these medical sources will encourage the patients to take diet treatment as a healthy behavior. Besides, the non-professional channels of relatives, friends, network, TV programs and broadcast stations will introduce the diabetics to take supplementary food as a healthy behavior. The diabetics may reduce their mental pressure when they receive medical control treatment, diet treatment and supplementary food. It is helpful to improve patient?s condition. Besides, the patients who follow doctor?s instructions to the hospital and take medicine have a better control on their blood sugar value. For healthy food, most of the diabetics eat vegetables and fruits. They occupy 49% of the total samples. In other words fruits and vegetables are the main food sources for the diabetics. For improving cooking method for 3 meals, the less salt and less oil cooking methods are most popular to the diabetics. They occupy 37.8% and 22.2% respectively. For taking western style supplementary food, calcium and vitamins are the most common supplementary food for the diabetics. They occupy 15.5% and 11.1% respectively. For taking Chinese style supplementary food, 6-herb Rehmannia pills, Xiang Chun tea (Toona sinensis Roem), udo, froctus lycii, American ginseng (Panacis Quinquefolii Radix), winter worm and summer grass (cordyceps sinensis), he shou wu (radix polygoni multiflori) and turtle-deer two fairy jelly are often used by the diabetics.After probing into the documents and experiments, this research comes to a conclusion ? the characters of the patients will obviously effect the patients on their healthy behaviors and selecting channels of medically cognitive information. On the other hand, there is no obvious difference on the efficiency of controlling the diabetes because of patient?s different healthy behavior. It is a common healthy behavior that the diabetics eat less salt, more green vegetable, calcium or 6-herb Rehmannia pills as supplementary food. |
