Factors Affecting Healthcare Seeking Behaviors: A Case Study of Residential Areas Affected by PM 2.5 at Suthep Subdistrict, Chiang Mai Province
Keywords:
Health Seeking Behaviors, PM 2.5, Health LiteracyAbstract
This cross-sectional research’s objectives were to study 1) health literacy, health belief model properties, and healthcare seeking behaviors 2) relationships among demographic characteristics, health belief model properties, and health literacy toward health seeking behaviors of people from 509 samples in residential areas affected by PM2.5 at Suthep subdistrict, Chiang Mai province. Cluster sampling was adopted. The questionnaires were generated and assessed the quality. The questionnaires corresponding to health belief model properties, and health seeking behaviors revealed Cronbach Alpha Coefficient 0.80 and 0.89, respectively. The questionnaires corresponding to health literacy revealed KR-20 0.75. The questionnaires were thus sent to the sample. Descriptive analysis was fundamentally adopted accompanied with Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions. The study revealed that most of samples performed low levels of health literacy (M=33.8, S.D. 19.9), highest levels of health belief model properties (M=4.49, S.D. 0.4), and the highest levels of health seeking behaviors (M=4.39, S.D. 0.4). A multiple regression model demonstrated a good fit for the data. F = 96.789, * p <0.05, adj R2 = 0.430 Factors affecting health seeking behaviors were health belief model properties (B = 0.598), past medical history (B = -0.023), health literacy (B = -0.030), and gender (B = -0.090), respectively.
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