The Competency of Village Health Volunteers 4.0 Affects the Performance of Village Health Volunteers in Racha Thewa Subdistrict, Bang Phli District, Samut Prakan Province
Keywords:
The Competency of Village Health Volunteers 4.0, Digital Technology Use, Volunteer, Health Transformation Leaders, The Health KnowledgeAbstract
This research aimed to determine the performance level of village health volunteers and the level of competency 4.0 of village health volunteers. Moreover, to determine the level of competency 4.0 of village health volunteers (the digital technology use, the health knowledge, the health volunteer, the health transformation leader) affects the performance of village health volunteers in Racha Thewa subdistrict, Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan province. The sample size was 164 village health volunteers. Questionnaires were used as tools to collect data, and questionnaires were checked for content validity by 3 experts. Index of item objective congruence (IOC) was 0.67 to 1.00. The reliability analysis with the alpha coefficient of performance was 0.970, the digital technology use variable was 0.925, and the volunteer variable was 0.913. The health transformation leaders variable was 0.899. The health knowledge variable used in KR20 was 0.820. The data analysis statistic was a multiple regression analysis by stepwise method.
The research results showed that the performance level of health volunteers was high. (= 3.68, S.D. = 0.38), digital technology use was high (
= 3.47, S.D. = 0.70), volunteer was high (
= 4.00, S.D. = 0.43), and health transformation leaders were high (
= 3.67, S.D. = 0.55). The health knowledge level was high by 75.6% (18-22 points). The volunteer variables, health transformation leader, digital technology use, and health knowledge, had affected the performance of village health volunteers, respectively (b = 0.222, b = 0.209, b = 0.102, b = -0.029). The competency 4.0 of village health volunteers explained the performance of village health volunteers by 26.9%. The health promotion hospital and Head of Village Health Volunteers can use the results of research for development and encourage the competency of village health volunteers 4.0, especially volunteers.
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