Development of Health Education Model for Monks

Abstract

          The effectiveness of the monk health education model helps monks to promote their self-health care behaviors. The purposes of the research were to develop the monk health education model and to evaluate the effectiveness of the model. The study encompassed four phases: 1) the situational analysis and the need assessment 2) the design and development of the monk health education model, based on Glaser’s Learning Model, Bandura’s Self Efficacy Theory, and Pender’s Health Promotion Model 3) the model implementation, and 4) the model evaluation.The design of the study was quasi-experimental research conducted with one group of samples (pre and post-test). The participants were 60 monks from the upper southern provinces of Thailand, recruited by simple random sampling. The measurements included the self-health care ability and the satisfaction of the health education model. All instruments were validated by three experts and tested its reliability with 30 monks, yield Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient of .87 Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the paired t-test. The findings revealed that the monk health education model required five components of cooperative, networks, instructionalpurposes, learning and instructional process, learning and instructional evaluation and feedback. The effectiveness of the model was measured by comparing the overall pre and post-test scores for self-efficacy competency. The result has shown that after the experiment the monk gained significantly higher score than before the experiment (t(60) = 3.84, p < .05). The monks satisfied with the model at a high level (M = 4.49, SD = 0.44).