Factors Relating to Public Mind of Students of Faculty of Public and Environment Health, Huachiew Chalermprakiet University

Abstract

 The objectives of this cross-sectional descriptive research were to study the public mind level and the factors relating to the public mind of the students. The sample was 190 students of the Faculty of Public and Environmental Health, Huachiew Chalermprakiet University in academic year of 2020 and was selected by using the stratified random sampling based on gender, year of study, and major, following with the systematic random sampling. Data were obtained by using questionnaire. Statistical analysis of data was done by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square test and Spearman’s rank correlation. The results revealed that the level of the public mind of students was at a high level (=3.98, SD=0.47). For each aspect, it was found that the item “respect public rights” was at the highest respect public rights, it was at the highest level (=4.40, SD=0.69), Insert “and the items on social responsibility responsibility, volunteering in the public sector and preservation of  public property were at high levels ( =3.89, 3.89, 4.15 ; SD=0.53, 0.53, 0.52). Please rephrase: Concerning the personal factors, Grade Point Average (GPA) had a very low positive correlation with the public mind of students with a statistical significance of 0.05 (r=0.241, p-value=0.001). Also, age as a factor had a very low had a very low negative correlation with a public mind at a statistical significance of 0.05 (r=-0.162, p-value=0.026). But factors like gender, year of study, major, monthly income were not significantly related to the public mind. The internal factors were perceived self-efficacy and following others which had a low, very low positive correlation with the public mind of students with a statistical significance of 0.05. (r=0.413,0.227 p-value=0.000).  The external factors such as family support, university support, peer support, and mass media support were  positively correlated at a low level with public mind at the statistically significant level of 0.05 (r=0.227, 0.380, 0.416, 0.424, 0.368, p-value=0.000). – if all factors were at a low level. Among the external factors such as family support, university support, peer support, mass media support was  positively correlated at a low level with public mind at the statistically significant level of 0.05 (r=0.227, 0.380, 0.416, 0.424, 0.368, p-value=0.000). – if only mass media support was at a low level therefore, the results suggest that the public mind of the students should be supported by the family, the university, and the media.