Oral herbs use behaviors of village health volunteers Warin Chamrap, Ubon Ratchathani

Abstract

This study was a cross sectional descriptive research aimed   to   investigate the Behavior of using herbs in the mouth of village health volunteers in Warin Chamrap District, Ubon Ratchathani Province. Sample group used in this research is village health volunteers of Warin Chamrap District, Ubon Ratchathani Province and have a working period of a public health volunteer for at least 6 months 411 people from simple sampling with a purpose to study the herbal use Behavior of the village health volunteers. And to find the relationship between General information, Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors of the use of herbs in the oral cavity. By using Multistage sampling, The tools used to collect data were questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. And inferential statistics with statistics Pearson Chi – square

        The results showed that Knowledge level is low 56.20 percent. The overall attitude of oral herbal use was good (=3.86, SD=0.6) Herbs were used for the treatment of oral disease (94.40%). In this group, herbs were used to treat oral diseases by combining with modern medicine (79.38%) because they believed in the effectiveness of herbs (36.60%), while those who had never used herbs (5.60%). Due to fear of being harmed from using herbs (47.83%) Oral herb use behavior of Volunteer relationship with age, monthly income Education level The period of volunteering and knowledge were statistically significant at 0.05 level (p <0.05), sex and attitudes did not correlate with the oral herb use behavior of volunteers were statistically significant at 0.05 level (p = 0.060, 0.224).