Factors affecting on Physical Fitness of Public Health Personnel

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study and compare factors affecting on physical fitness of Public Health Officers. The target population in this research were the health officers for the year 2020. Of 151 were the target populations from the two official agencies consisted of Health Promoting Hospital in Ban Kha District and Ban Kha Hospital. The research instruments were questionnaires of factors affecting on physical fitness of health officers that consisted of 3 parts: 1) information on the health officers, 2) questions on factors affecting on physical fitness (36 items), and 3) an open-ended question). The reliability was that Cronbach was 0.86. The data analyses were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test independent

The results found that physical fitness of male and female are overall highest average mean and standard deviations of (  =3.97,  =0.48). The item with the highest average was regular exercise. Physical fitness of public health officers, the external factors of male and female are overall highest average mean and standard deviations of (  =3.57,  =0.60), the item with the highest average is that the agency had a policy of having a fitness test for public health officers annually. Comparisons between male and female overall are significant level .05 (t=4.60). The results of comparison of differences in physical fitness of health workers between the two agencies showed  a statistically significant difference at the .05 level (t=4.23).