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Pensri Gongsumrit. 1995. Factors related to Self-Care agency of Leprosy Patients Who Attened Services From Out Patient Department (Leprosy) Phra-Pra-Daeng Hospital, Samutprakarn Province. Dissertation, M.S. (Behavioral Science) Behavioral Science Research Institute. The purposes of this study were 1) To search for important predictors which can predict self-care agency. 2) To study relationships among knowledge of leprosy, internal-external locus of control, achievement motives, social support and self-care agency. 3) To compare self-care agency of leprosy patients according to bio-social characteristics, knowledge of leprosy and psychological traits. The subjects of this study were one hundreds and eighty leprosy patients who attened services from out-patient department (Leprosy) Phra-Pra-Daeng Hospital, Samutphrakarn Province chosen by purposive sampling. Two sections of questionaires were used to collect data, the first section consists of sex, age, education, family, type, grade and time of illness, the second section consists of knowledge of leprosy, internal external locus of control, achievement motives, social support and self-care agency Pearson' s correlation, multiple regression analysis, two-way analysis of variance and three-way analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. The results were as follows: 1. When searching for the important predictors which can predict self-care agencey, it was found that achievement motives, internal-external locus of control and social support could predict 86.06 % of self-care agency. 2. It was found that knowledge of leprosy, internal-external locus of control, achievement motives and social support are significantly correlated to self-care agency. (p<.001). 3. When comparing the self-care agency of leprosy patients according to grade, knowledge of leprosy and psychological traits, the result were 3.1 The patients with grade 0 had better self-care agency than the patients with grade 2. 3.2 The patients with high Knowledge of leprosy had better self-care agency than the patients with low knowledge of leprosy. 3.3 The patients with internal locus of control had better self-care agency than the patients with external locus of control. 3.4 The patients with high achievement motives had better self-care agency than the patients with low achievement motives. 3.5 The patients with high social support had better self-care agency than the patients with low social support. 3.6 The patients with grade 2 and high knowledge of leprosy had better self-care agency than other groups, especially the group with grade 2 and low knowledge of leprosy. 3.7 The patients with high knowledge of leprosy and internal locus of control had better self-care agency than other groups, especially the group with low knowledge of leprosy and external locus of control. 3.8 The patients with high knowledge of leprosy and high tangible support had better self-care agency than other groups, especially the group with low knowledge of leprosy and low tangible support. 3.9 The patients with low achievement motives and high social support had better self-care agency than other groups, especially the group with low achievement motives and low social support. | SWU | | BSRI |