Predictive Factors to Preventive Behaviors toward Coronavirus 2019 Infection of Muslim Women in Nonthaburi Province

Abstract

          The descriptive correlational research aims to study preventive behaviors toward coronavirus infection and to investigate the predicted power of age, awareness, knowledge related to infectious prevention, and participation learning needs, to preventive behaviors toward coronavirus infection in Muslim women.

          The sample included 107 Muslim women aged 20–59 living in Pak Kret District, Nonthaburi Province. They were selected from Muslim women's houses by systematic random sampling. The research tool was a questionnaire comprised of five sections: personal data, awareness, infectious prevention knowledge, participation learning needs, and preventive behaviors toward coronavirus infection. The content validity indexes (CVI) of the second to fifth sections were .96–1.00. The knowledge reliability of Kuder Richardson-21 was.80. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of awareness, participation, and learning need were .78, .92, and .97, respectively. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression analysis.

          The results revealed that preventive behaviors toward coronavirus infection among Muslim women in total were at a good level. The predictive factors of preventive behaviors toward coronavirus infection were age, knowledge related to infectious prevention, and participation in learning at the significant level .01. The predictive power accounted for 25.6 of the variances.