DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM APPLYING SELF - EFFICACY AND SOCIAL SUPPORT TO ENHANCE EXERCISE BEHAVIORS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT THAILAND NATIONAL SPORTS UNIVERSITY YALA CAMPUS
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This developmental research aims to 1) develop health education program to enhance exercise behaviors by applying self-efficacy and social support for undergraduate students and 2) investigate the effects of using health education program applying self - efficacy and social support to enhance exercise behaviors of undergraduate students. The participants were selected using purposive sampling including 60 undergraduate students at Thailand National Sports University who were interested to do exercise, without chronic diseases, and pleased to participate in the program. They were divided into 2 groups, 30 each; the experimental and control groups. 10 weeks of the experiment were given to the experimental group. The research instruments included 1) health education program applying self - efficacy and social support to enhance exercise behaviors and 2) exercise behavior questionnaire. The data from pre and posttests for independent t - test were collected and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in order to compare the statistical significance differences. The findings revealed that the developed health education program could be practical to enhance exercise behaviors. The statistical significance of exercise behaviors of the experimental group using health education program to enhance exercise behaviors by applying self - efficacy and social support was found at the level of 0.01.
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