FACTORS INFLUENCING PREVENTIVE BEHAVIOR FOR COVID - 19 OF FOOD DELIVERY WORKERS IN BANGKOK

Abstract

This research is a cross-sectional analytical research. The purpose of this study was to explain and identify factors influencing the behavior of COVID-19 prevention. There were 276 food delivery workers in Bangkok who used the convenience sampling method to collect data between July and August 2022. The researchers created the research tool, which was a questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation statistics and linear multiple regression.

The study found that the majority of the food delivery staff, 90.58% who were male, had an average age of 30.45 years, SD 8.31 years, and 46.01% had a diploma or higher vocational certificate. The average time for delivery staff to deliver food was 1.8 years, with a standard deviation of 1.17 years and full-time basis 75.00%. At 44.93%, the most common reason for coming to work as a food delivery worker was to change careers.  Furthermore, it was discovered that food delivery workers have very good health literacy to prevent COVID-19 and behavior to prevent COVID-19, with 76.81% and 92.39%, respectively. The personal factor of reasons for becoming a delivery worker (ꞵ=-0.120) and the health literate in information skills (ꞵ=.304) influenced COVID-19 prevention behavior. These two factors can predict COVID-19 prevention behavior in food delivery staff by 10.80%. As a result, stakeholders should focus on improving health literacy and information usage skills to encourage delivery staff to adopt COVID-19 prevention behaviors, with a particular emphasis on new food delivery workers.