Factors Influencing Success in Implementing COVID-19 Control in Communities among Village Health Volunteers

Abstract

This cross-sectional analysis study aimed to explore success in implementing COVID-19 control in communities among village health volunteers and factors influencing success in implementing COVID-19 control in communities among village health volunteers at Nongmakamong sub-district, Danchang district, Suphanburi province. Samples were 162 village health volunteers recruited online using stratified random sampling. Research instrument was questionnaire about success of the implementation of COVID-19 control which had the Item-Objective Congruence (IOC) ranging from .67-1.00 and Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of .884. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and logistic regression.

The results revealed that the success in implementing COVID-19 control in communities among village health volunteers at Nongmakamong sub-district, Danchang district, Suphanburi province was at a high level (=4.39, S.D.=0.34). In addition, the village health volunteers who were responsible for 16-20 households had 2.33 times opportunity of success in implementing COVID-19 control (OR=2.33, 95%CI: 1.07-5.06) when compared to those who were responsible for 10-15 households. The factors linked to gender, age, education, working period, income sufficiency, comorbidities, responsible area settings, travel convenience for work had no relationships among these factors.

Therefore, sub-district health promoting hospitals should assign village health volunteers to be responsible for 16-20 households and encourage village health volunteers to be self-care as having an exemplary behavior and to be significant health workforce in implementing COVID-19 prevention and other diseases in communities.