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. 

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