Development of Migrant Health Volunteers in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Ratchaburi Province

Abstract

This research is a quasi-experimental study. The purpose of the two-group measure was to compare the average score of role recognition and knowledge. In terms of health insurance card benefits, communicable diseases and prevention, treatment and health promotion between the experimental and control groups before and after the development, and to study the satisfaction with the development in health promotion and disease prevention of foreign public health volunteers. The sample group is foreign public health volunteers. In Ratchaburi Province, a total of 60 people were divided into experimental groups and control groups. The tool used was a Capacity Development Manual for Foreign Public Health Volunteers developed by the researcher and collected data using questionnaires to analyze the data with descriptive statistics, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and reference statistics. The experimental group had an average score of role recognition and knowledge. In terms of health insurance card benefits, communicable diseases and prevention, treatment and health promotion increased statistically significantly (p-value < 0.01) and foreign health volunteers were very satisfied with the development. The use of illustration media at the actual site and the development of a mentoring system to enhance the continuity of operations.