The development of Participatory Prevention model for Liver Fluke among Village Health Volunteers, Ban Khok Sub-District, Sang Khom District, Udon Thani Province.

Abstract

The purpose of this action research was to develop the participation prevention model for liver fluke among Village Health Volunteers, Ban Khok Sub-District, Sang Khom District, Udon Thani Province. The subject were 30 village health volunteers. The action research of PAOR cycle was employed with 4 stages; Planning, Action, Observatio and Reflect. Data were collected by questionnaire, interview and  focus group. The quantitative data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard derivation and paired sample t-test.

The results showed that Participation Prevents most prevention of liver fluke diseases by health volunteers in province. After the development of a participatory liver fluke prevention model, it was found that After developing the participation model of village health volunteers has understand of knowledge and a good attitude to prevention a liver fluke disease for yourself and community. The participation activities with the community has visited responsibility villages and recommending practice to prevention disease by do not eat raw fish. After activities found that scores for knowledge, attitude, behavior and participation in liver fluke prevention increased significantly with statistics significant at 0.05 level.