Promotion Guidelines for Prevention New Positive Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among Migrant workers in Nakhon Ratchasima Province

Abstract

This research is action research. The objective is to study the knowledge about pulmonary tuberculosis of migrant workers. Promotion process to prevent new occurrence of New Positive case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among migrant workers and the result of Promotion Guidelines for Prevention New Positive Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among migrant workers in Nakhon Ratchasima Province. The sample have 2 groups consisting of 413 Migrant workers and 10 Migrant workers health volunteers. Data were collected by questionnaires, Group Discussion and In-depth interviews. The analysis of quantitative data is the percentage, Mean, Paired sample t-test and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The qualitative data is by data classification.

The results of the research showed that (1) Most of migrant workers are male are cambodian nationality, most never touch or stay close to patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Before training, have a behavior and knowledge of pulmonary tuberculosis at a moderate level. (2) Overall, the sample group has a high level of satisfaction with this project and needs. After training, migrant workers had better behavior than before training at statistical significance of 0.05 (p-value <0.001, t = 18.60) and increased knowledge from before training with statistical significance at the level of 0.05 (p-value <0.001, t = 16.45). Knowledge of migrant workers there is a statistically significant relationship, the relationship is in the same direction at a moderate level (r = 0.60; p-value = 0.412) (3) Promotion Guidelines for Prevention New Positive Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among Migrant workers in Nakhon Ratchasima Province is the LUNG-D Model comprise as (1) Lasting : The employer must support ongoing health activities (2) Unconditional awareness : Migrant workers must be aware of the severity of pulmonary tuberculosis (3) Non-stop support : Health organizations must not stop supporting health (4) Good environment : Industrial need to improve the landscape for the good environment (5) Developing personal skills : Migrant workers health volunteers must developing personal skills, the developed guidelines are appropriate that can actually be used.