Program development for health literacy and rational drug use behavior among students in Faculty of Public Health

Abstract

This research is a quasi-experimental research with the Pretest – Posttest control group design. This study aimed to study the effect of health literacy development program on reasonable Antibiotics drug use for Public Health Students.

The population used in the study was 716 students who are studying regular program, Bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Public Health., at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University. people. Data were collected by using a questionnaire with 60 samples which are divided into 30experimental groups and 30 control groups. The content validity of the questionnaire was tested by 5 experts and the validity test for Cronbach's alpha coefficient test is 0.92 questionnaire. In the 12-week research, the data were analyzed using a ready-made computer program. The statistics used in data analysis are Descriptive statistics, percentages, mean, standard deviation, median, minimum, maximum, and analytical statistics were used by Paired t – test to compare results within groups and Independent t – test to compare between groups by setting the level of statistical significance at 0.05.

The results showed that the experimental group, health literacy, awareness, and antibiotic use behavior before and after the 12 week trial had different mean scores. (p-value<0.001) with statistical significance at the 0.05 level and mean scores on health literacy, awareness and antibiotic use behavior of students of the Faculty of Public Health of the experimental group. The mean scores were higher than the control group in all aspects. When tested for differences with independent t-test, it was found that after 12 weeks, both groups had a statistically significant difference in improvements in health literacy on reasonable antibiotic use behaviors. (t=8.68, df=58.00, p<0.001))