The Six Health Promotion Video Package for Primary Students in Chiang Mai

Abstract

This is a Research and Development Research (R&D), which is one aspect of Action Research. The objectives of this research are 1) to enhance and develop knowledge and understanding about the six health promotion and 2) to examine the satisfaction towards enhancing and developing knowledge and understanding about the six health promotion. The researcher has developed an innovation that has been tested. The research was conducted by using qualitative research, piloting communication to enhance knowledge and understanding by conducting activities to provide knowledge to the sample. Then, the questionnaires were used to measure the overall performance. It was conducted on 750 students from 25 schools in Chiang Mai through convenience sampling.

The results showed that after watching the six health promotion video packages, the majority of the samples had learned and having knowledge and understanding about the Five Food Groups correctly, 99.3 percent. They have good emotional control in their practices when they are not happy with what friends do, 55.3 percent. They understand the correct hygiene in bathing, 93.6 percent, and brushing teeth, 94.2 percent. They also have a deep understanding of the amulet, by realizing that cigarettes, narcotics, and gambling are bad thing, 73.0 percent. In addition, most of the sample groups were satisfied with the activities at the highest level at the average (  = 4.56).

Keywords: knowledge, understanding, video package, six health promotion