Health Promoting Behaviors of COVID-19 Prevention among Village Health Volunteers at Uthai Thani Province, Thailand
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Health promoting behaviors, COVID-19, Village health volunteersบทคัดย่อ
This survey research aimed to study personal, predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors and health promoting behaviors of COVID-19 prevention among village health volunteers (VHVs). The sample size was determined using Krejcie and Morgan’s formula yielding the samples of 510 participants. The PRECEDE model was used as the conceptual framework to analyze the determinants of health promoting behaviors for COVID-19 prevention. Data were collected using questionnaire developed by the researcher. The instrument was validated by 3 public health experts. The reliability of the instrument was tested yielding Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing-factor sections at 0.83, 0.81 and 0.83, respectively. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product moment correlations for relationships among studied variables.
Among the 510 samples responded, there were 362 females (70.98%) with 148 males (29.02%). Most of the samples aged between 31-40 years old (67.1%) and slightly over half were singles (50.1%). Correlation tests showed that monthly income (p=0.015) was significantly associated with health promoting behaviors of COVID-19 prevention while age (p=0.486) and work experience (p=0.987) had no significant relationship. The findings also indicated that independent variables including predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors were significantly associated with health promoting behaviors of COVID-19 prevention among VHVs with p=0.001, 0.000, and 0.000, respectively.
The findings from this study supported the importance to promote participations in disease prevention among VHVs. It was also suggested that notification and information sharing systems are essential especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and that the systems will allow people working in this field gain knowledge and promote health promoting behaviors of COVID-19 prevention effectively.
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