The Development of Health Network Parties Participation of Iodine Deficiency Prevention Model among Pregnant Women at Rob Mueang Subdistrict, Mueang Roi Et District, Roi Et Province

Abstract

The purpose of this Participatory Action Research was to develop a participation model for a health partnership network to help prevent iodine deficiency in pregnant women by using the participatory approach. The subjects of this study were divided into two groups which included the planner group and the user group. 30 members of a planner group of the District Health Board and 32 pregnant women which were simple random sampling. Data was collected using a questionnaire. The iodine knowledge test had a discriminant power of 0.31 - 0.75, the difficulty of each item ranging from 0.53 - 0.78, and reliability (KR-20) equal to 0.76, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.91 and were analyzed by descriptive statistics, paired sample t-test. The results revealed that there were 5 steps in the planning development process which included 1) Area context analysis 2) Action Plan 3) Implementation of the plan 4) Monitoring 5) Conclusion and lesson learned. The result emerged the iodine deficiency prevention model for pregnant women which included         8 interventions namely 1) Iodine fortified salt fund 2) Monday iodine broadcast 3) Iodine deficiency education 4) Encouragement for taking iodine supplements in pregnant women 5) Finding new pregnant women 6) Visitation all of the pregnant women 7) Prenatal care counseling in the Sub-district health promotion hospital 8) Health social media. The results indicated that knowledge, practice, and satisfaction were increased significantly at p<0.05. The recommended that operational research should be conducted to find guidelines, techniques, and methods to sustainably solve iodine deficiency problems.