Results of community participation large grocery store development in Nakhon Ratchasima Province 2023

Abstract

Objective: To know the results of community participation in large grocery store development in Nakhon Ratchasima Province 2023, A total of 32 districts, through the cooperation of grocery store operators and network partners. Methods: This study is a community participation study, collecting data from specific large grocery stores (purposive sampling method) in 2023, number 908 places. The operation has the following steps:
1. Planning with network partners 2. Training to provide knowledge and understanding to grocery store operators. 3. Survey of the list of drugs sold and 4. Reflecting information to network partners. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the relationship between personal factors and inappropriate drug-selling behavior was found using chi-square statistics. The results: This study found that large grocery stores were the target group. Selling dangerous and prohibited drugs in the second inspection, there were 164 places (18.06%) decreased from the first inspection of 386 places (42.51%) with statistical significance (p<0.001). Community participation in grocery store development can reduce community demand factors, Factors of not knowing the law that drugs are prohibited for sale and the factor of having a vehicle to transport drugs to the front of the house is statistically significant (p<0.005),
but cannot reduce the factor of sales or profits. Knowledge scores increased significantly after the training from 66.85 percent to 93.94 percent (p<0.001). Conclusion: Development of large-scale grocery stores using community participation. It can reduce the number of grocery stores that sell dangerous and prohibited drugs in the community. and can reduce community demand factors, Factors of not knowing the law that drugs are prohibited for sale, and the factor of having a vehicle to transport drugs to the front of the house