Factors Influencing Preventive Behavior of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Among Village Health Volunteers in Kong Krailat District, Sukhothai Province

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to access behavior for protecting Coronavirus disease 2019. Moreover, the study was to determine factors influencing the preventive behavior of Coronavirus disease 2019 among village health volunteers in Kong Krailat District, Sukhothai Province. The survey research was conducted on 363 village health volunteers. The data were collected from December 2020 to February 2021 by using the questionnaires. Logistic regression and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. The significance with a 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of odd ratio (OR) was applied to determine factors associated with the behavior. The result showed that the preventive behavior of Coronavirus disease 2019 was at a good level about 60.61%. Factors that significantly influenced preventive behavior of Coronavirus disease 2019 were 1) personality factors; age group of 41-60 years old (OR=2.64, 95% CI=1.19 -5.82), working period 1-10 years (OR=2.15, 95% CI=1.08-4.26), intermediate level of knowledge (OR=16.60, 95% CI=1.99-58.44) and high level of knowledge (OR=6.91, 95% CI=1.84-56.45) 2) Furthermore, health belief about factors of perception and preventive behaviors on the coronavirus disease 2019 was; intermediate level of benefit perception (OR=2.47, 95% CI=1.28-37.96), high level of benefit perception (OR=52.66, 95% CI=3.28-93.88). The study recommended that health care providers should be educated to village health volunteers by focusing on the training for specific groups, especially the young adults who thought they were healthy to raise awareness in promoting health care and protecting themselves from the coronavirus disease 2019.