People's Behavior of Pesticide-residue Free Vegetable Consumption of Ban Sean-Sam-Ran, Samkha Sub–District, Kuchinarai District, Kalasin Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to explore behavior of pesticide-residue free vegetable consumption of people in BanSeansamran, Samkha Sub-district, Kuchinarai District, Kalasin Province. Participants were 98 persons who had their responsibility for preparing foods in the households selected by simple random sampling. Questionnaires were used to collect the data linked to personal information, leading factors, facilitating factors, reinforced factors and also behavior of pesticide-residue free vegetable consumption. There were the reliability of the test=0.50 by using Kuder–Richardson (KR-20), the difficulty index=0.3-0.5 and the discrimination index =0.2-0.7. Additionally, the reliabilities of questionnaire tested by Cronbach's alpha coefficient were 0.77 for attitude, 0.85 for reinforced factors and 0.71 for behavior of pesticide-residue free vegetable consumption. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, including frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum.

The results revealed that the participants had their behavior of pesticide-residue free vegetable consumption at a moderate level (69.39%) and then at a good level (30.61%).