The Activity Model of Creating Motivation and Social Support to Encourage the Risk Group of Women to Receive the Cervical Cancer Checking Service of Piapao Community Health Promotion Hospital in Ubon Ratchathani’s Warinchamrap District

Abstract

The research aimed to study general states of the risk group of women who sought the cervical cancer checking service; to create an activity model to create motivation and social support for the women in question to seek the cervical cancer service; to use the model in question to an experimental group of women and to compare knowledge of the disease, risk chance, severity of a disease, and advantages of having the cervical cancer service before and after the experiment. Thirty women from Ban Takhonglek in Warinchamrap were the experimental group and thirty women from Ban Kumnangruay in Warinchamrap were the control group. The former participated in the activities for 12 weeks. The research instruments were the questionnaire, the activity model and the handbook. Statistics used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The research findings were as follows 1. The women in the risk group who participated in the activity showed a higher level of knowledge on the cervical cancer than before and they also had a higher level of the same than those who did not. 2. The women in the risk group who participated in the activity showed a higher level of perception of severity of a disease than before and they had a higher level of perception of the same than those who did not.