Knowledge and Attitude toward Oral Health Care among The Village Health Volunteers at The Service Area of Bua Wat Health Promoting Hospital, Warin Chamrap District, Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

The cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to study knowledge and attitude toward oral health care among the Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) at the service area of Bua Wat Health Promoting Hospital, Warin Chamrap district, Ubon Ratchathani province. A total of 155 samples were recruited from VHVs at the service area of Bua Wat Health Promoting Hospital, Warin Chamrap district, Ubon Ratchathani province using a sample random sampling method. Data were collected by testing of knowledge and questionnaire of attitude. The content validity was 0.86 and 0.70 respectively. The reliability of knowledge testing by KR - 20 was 0.71. The reliability of attitude by Cronbach’s Alpha method was 0.86. Data analyzed using descriptive statistics.  The results showed that the knowledge about oral health care of VHVs demonstrated at a moderate level (68.30 %). The attitude toward in oral health care of VHVs was demonstrated at the moderate level (75.50 %). The basic research of knowledge and attitude toward oral health care among VHVs can be further developed to promoting oral health care among VHVs such as providing dental health education program to encourage VHVs as public health personnel with good at oral health care.