Role Performance about Diabetes of Village Health Volunteers: A Health Promoting Hospital in Samutprakan

Abstract

The objectives of this cross-sectional descriptive research were to study the level of role performance about diabetes of village health volunteers (VHVs) and to study the relationships between the personal factors, knowledge about diabetes, social support from health officers, and the role performance. The sample was 100 VHVs in a health promoting hospital, Samutprakarn province and was selected by using the simple random sampling method. Data were obtained by using questionnaire. The study was conducted between August and December 2016. Statistics used for analyzing data were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, chi-square test and Spearman’s rank correlation analysis.

The findings revealed that the level of role performance about diabetes of VHVs were at a high level ( = 3.44 SD=0.36). Personal factors found that gender was related to the role performance about diabetes of VHVs with a statistical significance of 0.05. However, it was found that age, educational level, marital status, income, duration of being volunteers, and knowledge about diabetes were not significant related to the role performance about diabetes. Social support form health officers as a whole and appraisal support had a positive relationship with the role performance about diabetes of VHVs at the significance level of 0.05 (r=0.207, r=0.222), but emotional support , informational support and Instrumental support were statistically in significant correlation with the role performance about diabetes.