Improving Health Personnel’s Happiness in Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

This Research and Development aimed to study situation of happiness, problems, and the needs for happiness from happy money and to develop guidelines of an innovation to solve financial problems of health personnel by using design thinking. Of 10,425 samples were collected by using online Happinometer questionnaires. There were 12 purposive samples, including executives, government officers, government employees, Ministry of Public Health employees and temporary workers, who were residing in Muang District and Lao Suea Kok District that were participated for in-dept interview from 1^st to 31^st December 2022. Multiple logistic regression was used for data analysis which p-value was set at <.05. The results found that age, education level, having children, different types of employee status, length of working in the organization, number of career changes and personal monthly income were statistically significant with happy money at p value<.05. The financial problems started from a lack of financial planning and excessing debts from unnecessary and excessive spending. These problems affected work, family, health and insufficient income after retirement. The data obtained can set the definitive question that “How can we increase personal knowledge in planning and solving financial problems, saving money and creating additional careers for health personnel?” by ideation towards innovation to solve the problems via short videos online. All organization should promote innovative strategies for solving financial problems based on innovation.