Effect of Health Belief Model Education on Increasing Cognition and Self-Care Behaviour among Elderly Women with Malignant Gynaecological Tumours in Fujian, China
Table 1
Comparison of individual characteristics in the two groups.
Characteristics
HBM education group (n = 134)
Basic nursing group (n = 133)
value
Age (years, ±SD)
66.90 ± 7.25
67.35 ± 6.86
0.603
BMI (±SD)
24.77 ± 3.29
24.58 ± 3.45
0.656
Educational level (n (%))
≤ junior middle school
98 (73.1)
92 (69.2)
0.475
≥ senior high school
36 (26.9)
41 (30.8)
Marital status (n (%))
Married
112 (83.6)
115 (86.5)
0.509
Unmarried
22 (16.4)
18 (13.5)
Medical expenses (n (%))
Medical insurance
118 (88.1)
119 (89.5)
0.715
Self-paying
16 (11.9)
14 (10.5)
Tumour types (n (%))
Cervical cancer
66 (49.3)
71 (53.4)
0.755
Endometrial cancer
42 (31.3)
40 (30.1)
Ovarian cancer
26 (19.4)
22 (16.5)
FIGO stages (n (%))
I
66 (49.3)
69 (51.9)
0.668
≥II
68 (50.7)
64 (48.1)
Hospitalization times (n (%))
<3
126 (94.0)
123 (92.5)
0.614
≥3
8 (6.0)
10 (7.5)
Basic VTE risk (n (%))
Middle risk
56 (41.8)
61 (45.9)
0.502
Extremely high risk
78 (58.2)
72 (54.1)
HBM, health belief mode; SD, standard deviation; FIGO, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics; VTE, venous thrombus embolism.
