Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine factors affecting coping behaviors in hemiplegic elderly in Eastern regional hospitals in Thailand. The sample consisted of 130 hemiplegic elderly in Eastern regional hospitals in Thailand. The interview forms were developed by the researcher. The data were collected through interviews and analyzed using the SPSS program to determine the frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation, and to conduct an independent t-test, Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis.The results of the study revealed that the factors that had a positive correlation with coping behaviors were social support, activities of daily living, and income. The factor that had a negative correlation was stress. The stepwise multiple regression showed that social support and activities of daily living were able to predict coping behaviors in hemiplegic elderly at a statistical significance of .05. These two factors could cooperatively predict coping behaviors at 35 percent, and the equation was :TC = -.0152 + .755 (TSS) + .022 (TAD)The factor that had a positive correlation with emotive coping behaviors was stress. The factors that had a negative correlation were social support, and activities of daily living. The stepwise multiple regression showed that stress and social support were able to predict emotive coping behaviors in hemiplegic elderly at a statistical significance of .05. These two factors could cooperatively predict emotive coping behaviors at 18 percent and the equation was :TE = 1.075 + .026 (TST) - .205 (TSS)The factor that had a positive correlation with palliative coping behaviors was stress. The stepwise multiple regression showed that stress was able to predict palliative coping behaviors in hemiplegic elderly at a statistical significance of .05 and could predict palliative coping behaviors at 3 percent, and the equation was :TP = 1.265 + 0.12 (TST)