Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Correlation between Precipitating Factors of Symptom and Preventive Behavior towards the Exposures

Introduction: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (lupus) and its unpredictable flares have lowering the patients’ quality of life significantly. Precipitating factors’ exposures need to be reduced by doing preventive behaviors to reduce the frequency of lupus flare. This study aimed to analyze the correlation between precipitating factors and preventive behavior in lupus patients. Method: This is a cros-sectional study. Population was all lupus patients doing regular check-up in Rheumatology Unit of Dr. Soetomo Public Hospital, Surabaya. Sample was lupus patients who did regular check-up in the period of October-December 2014 and matched to sample’s criteria. Sample size was 36 enrolled by means of total sampling. Independent variabel: precipitating factors of lupus flare; dependent variable: knowledge of lupus, attitude (self-efficacy) and preventive action towards exposures. Instruments used were questionnaire of lupus precipitating factors and ODAPUS-HEBI (part 1,2,3). Data analysis used Spearman Rho correlation with α