Factors Affecting Health Care Behaviors of Working Age People in the Responsible Area of Ban Na Wong Sub-district Health Promoting Hospital, Tha Sak Sub-district, Mueang District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province
Keywords:
health care behavior, working adults, subdistrict health promotion hospitalAbstract
The objective of this descriptive research was to study working adults' health care behavior and factors affecting to their health care behavior. The study took place in the area of Ban Nawong Sub-district Health Promotion Hospital, Tha Sak Sub-district, Muang District, Nakhon Si Thammarat. The sampling population consisted of 350 people. Questionnaires were used collecting data. Collected data was then analyzed yielding percentage, mean, and standard deviation figures. Results from the study showed that 1) more than half of the sampling population were female (52.0 %), aged between 37-47 years old (34.0%), had elementary school education (43.1%), considered to be general laborers (42.6%), had adequate income (58.0%), had annual physical check-up (53.1%), and considered to be healthy, strong with no congenital disease (82.6%), 2) health self-care was found to be at "good" level (mean = 2.98, SD = 0.10), 3) Personal factors, including gender, monthly income and health status affects health care behaviors. 4) Leading factors include perceived benefits of health care affecting health care behaviors. 5) Contributing factors include having resources to promote health in the community affecting health care behaviors. 6) additional factors, namely receiving information about health care from various media affecting health care behavior.
References
Ban Na Wong Sub-district Health Promoting Hospital, Tha Sak Subdistrict, Nakhon Si Thammarat
Province. (2017). Ban Na Wong Sub-district Health Promoting Hospital, Tha Sak Subdistrict,
Nakhon Si Thammarat Province. Retrieved on March 30, 2023 from https://bit.ly/3mcFVdT
Cronbach, Lee J. (1951). Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests. Psychometrika, 16(3):
–334.
Green, L.W., Krueter, M.W. (1991). Health Promotion Planning an Educational and Environment
Approach. (2nd ed). Toronto: Mayfield Publishing Company.
Mekwimon, W. (2010). Health Care Behavior of Peoples beside in Students Applied Thai Traditional
Medicine Program Practice Area, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Suan Sunandha
Rajabhat University (Research Report). Bangkok: Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University.
National Statistical Office Thailand. (2020). Situations of population health problems and behaviors
related to the working population. Retrieved on March 30, 2023 from https://dopah.
anamai.moph.go.th/webupload/8x6b2a6a0c1fbe85a9c274e6419fdd6071/tinymce/KPI
/KPI119/25640111911.pdf
Palank, C. L. (1991). Determinants of health-promotive behavior: A review of current research.
Nursing Clinics of North America, 26(4): 815 – 832.
Pender, N. J. (1996). Heath promotion in nursing practice. (3rd ed.). Connecticut: Appleton &
Lange.
Wasee, P. (1998). On a new path to promote health, Apiwat life and society. (2nd ed.) . Bangkok:
Mor Chao Ban Publisher.
Worabutr, C. (2007). Self-Health Care Behaviors among the Middle Age Residents in Amphoe
Srisawat Changwat Kanchanaburi. A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Master Degree of Arts, Department of Psychology and Guidance
In Graduate School, Silpakorn University.
Yamane, T. (1973). Statistics: An introductory statistics, (2 ed.). New York: Harper & Row.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
