The Associations between Knowledge, Attitude, Health Media Accession Affecting Health Behavior toward “Eat Hot Foods, Use Serving Spoon, and Always Wash Your Hands” among People Over18 Years of Warin Chamrap District, Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

Knowledge, attitude, and health media accession may affect health behavior. This study aimed to investigate the associations between knowledge, attitude, health media accession, and health behavior toward “eat hot foods, use a serving spoon, and always wash your hands” among people over 18 years of Warin Chamrap district, Ubon Ratchathani province. Data were collected between January and March 2020. Four hundred twenty-two samples were recruited by using simple random sampling (SRS). Descriptive statistics; percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square test, and binary logistic regression were used for data analysis. Results found that samples had access to television at 71.80 percent, community broadcast at 67.06 percent, and received information from health care personnel at 51.66 percent respectively. The logistic regression analysis found that age 45-59 years, being female, having low knowledge having a negative attitude, health media accession at one time, and never access to health media had the highest probability of inappropriate behavior toward “eat hot foods, use a serving spoon and wash your hands”. Therefore, to promote health awareness and to prevent food and waterborne infections and other infectious diseases, people should be able to receive health knowledge and access to health media thoroughly.