Mental Health of People in Prasat District, Surin Province

Abstract

Back ground: The mental health status of people worldwide at present, including Thailand, is being confronted with mental problems which affected people’s health. Residence of Prasat District, Surin Province also faces with these problems like the rest of the country. The government therefore issued mental health promotion policy for better health status of Thai’s people. However the policy alleviated only parts of problems. Thus for good mental health promotion and to prevent metal health problems, level of mental status should be identified as fundamental data for further study of causes and factors affected people’s mental health to create an effective action plan.
Objective: To study mental health status of people in Prasat District, Surin Province.
Research design: Cross-sectional Survey Research
Sample: Sample group (N = 390) was from resident of Prasat district, Surin province aged between 20-60 year. The sample was random by multi-stage random technique.
Methods: Research tool is questionnaire developed from analytical framework proposed by Apichai Mongkol et al. (2001). This questionnaire inquiring about mental health status has reliability level at 0.8170.
Result: The study showed that 40.7% of residence in Prasat district had mental health status at averaged level of normal people. While 32.1% were higher than those of normal and 27.2% were under than average level.
Conclusion and Suggestion: The mental health status of people in Prasat district, Surin province was mostly at normal level. Thus an effective mental health promotion and prevention which based on this fundamental research will consequently improve mental health status of the people in Prasat district.
Key word: Mental Health