The effects of health education program implement in Trat Province.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a health education program for I term of knowledge, attitude, exercise behavior and physical fitness. This was a one-groupe pre-test design in which the program had been impremented for 8 months. The sample was composed of 154 male and female participants members in Trat province. The instruments used in this investigation were the questionnaires assessing knowledge about exercise, attitude toward exercise, and exercise practice, and the physical fitness test carried out by the Sports Science Center, the sport organization of Thailand. This study was conducted durind May to December 2003.Data were analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation, paired sample t-test, chi-square and Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient.The results showed that knowledge of exercise, attitude toward exercise, exercise practice and physical fitness of posttest significantly improved (P<.05) after 8 months program. It was onso found that men showed more improvement in
exercise practice and physical fitness than women. Moreover, this study reveated that acquisition of information about exercise significantly correlated with knowledge of exercise,attitude toward exercise, exercise practice and physical fitness (P<0.5). In addittion knowledge of exercise, attitude toward exercise and exercise practice also correlated with physical fitness (P<.05). Therefore, was concluded that
the health education program is useful to improve exercise activities and physical fitness.