Knowledge and Skill in Preventing and Controlling Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever of Health Volunteer Pai District, Maehongson Province

Abstract

These research objectives were to study 1) personal factor, family factor and working factor of health volunteers in Pai District, Maehongsong Province, and 2) study relationship between knowledge and skill to prevent and control Dengue Hemorrhagic fever of health volunteers in Pai District, Meahongsong province. This was a quantitative research by using questionnaire to collect data from 194 samples and the observation form to collect data from 20 samples. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistic and Pearson product moment correlation coefficient.

The research results found that; 1) the majority of sample group were female, 41-50 years old, highest education in primary school class 4 and they had married status, 2) they got supporting from their family for health volunteer, 3) they had working experience of health volunteer for 9-13 years and attended the training 2-4 times per year, 4) 89% of them had knowledge about preventing and controlling Dengue Hemorrhagic fever in high level which, highest knowledge was elimination mosquito larva by proning the containers and checking every 7 day and skill in preventing and controlling Dengue Hemorrhagic fever in high level which, highest skill was the responsibility of preventing and controlling Dengue Hemorrhagic fever by following, observation, and reporting to health agency continuously, and 5) the result of the overall relative of knowledge and skill in preventing and controlling Dengue Hemorrhagic fever did not related signigficantly.