Effectiveness the Development Program on Health Literacy and 3A 2S Health Behaviors of The Village Health Volunteers Health Manager In Banlueam District, NakhonRatchasima Province.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of health literacy and 3A 2S health behaviors (Ar-harn = Food, Aok-kam-lung-kai = Exercise, Ar-rom = Emotion, Soub-buri = Smoking and Su-ra = Alcohol) of the Village Health Volunteers health manager in Banlueam district, NakhonRatchasima province. The study design was a quasi – experimental study one group pretest – posttest. The sample sizes of simple random sampling were 31peoples. The study instrument were the program health literacy by participatory learning and questionnaires on health literacy and 3A 2S health behaviors. Process of data collection was from May 15,2018 to August 31,2018.The data were analyzed by computer program, general data were analyzed by percentages, mean, standard deviation, paired t-test, determine the significance level at 0.05.

The result of this study found that, overall health literacy was significantly different (p =0.001). the different components were self-management (p=0.01) and right decision-making (p =0.01). There was not different in overall health behaviors before and after. There was significantly different (p =0.01) in controlling the amount of sweetness and salt in each meal.