Factors Influencing Health Seeking Behavior Among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

type 2 diabetes mellitus, health seeking behavior

Abstract

Non-communicable disease is an enormous challenge for both national and international health system due to its rapidly increasing incidents and prevalence during the last three decades. Moreover, there are still many undiagnosed diabetes mellitus cases in Indonesia. Both undiagnosed cases and diagnosed cases of diabetes mellitus need an appropriate health seeking behavior to be treated and managed well. Some factors could influence the development of good health seeking behavior (HSB) among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. This study aimed to investigate some factors that affecting health seeking behavior among type 2 diabetes mellitus in Wangon, Banyumas, Central Java. This study conducted using an analytical correlation method which involved 85 type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. Sample in this study was type 2 diabetes mellitus patients who had no diabetes-related complication and are under treatment process which selected with purposive sampling approach. Socio-demographic and Health Seeking Behavior questioners were used in this study. Bivariate analysis using chi-square test and multivariate analysis using logistic regression were conducted. This study found that most of respondents went to formal health facilities when they had health-related issues (69.4%). Furthermore, the factor that influencing HSB in this study was occupation (p: 0.014, chi square test). While other factors such as age (p: 0.799, chi square test), marital status (p: 0.364, fisher test), gender (p:0.155, fisher test), duration of having the illness (p: 0.114, fisher test), recent health problem (0.779, fisher test), and the distance from house to health facilities (p: 0.342, chi square test) did not affect significantly HSB. This study found that occupation factor positively impacted to the patients’ health seeking behavior. However, the logistic regression test confirmed no factors significantly associated with health seeking behavior. Health seeking behavior is a unique behavior that plays an important role in the treatment and management of non-communicable disease such as type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Azka Fathiyatir Rizqillah
AU  - Atun Raudatul Ma’rifah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/10
TI  - Factors Influencing Health Seeking Behavior Among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Community Health (ICCH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1
EP  - 4
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.001
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.001
ID  - Rizqillah2020
ER  -