Effects of Health Promotion Program on Health Literacy and Prevention Behavior of COVID-19 among Caretaker and Teachers of Children in Early Childhood Development Centers, Nakhonsawan Province

Abstract

The purpose of this quasi-experimental research pretest-posttest design was conducted to study the effects of health promotion program on health literacy and prevention behavior of       COVID-19 among caretakers and teachers of children in early childhood development centers.             A sample of 32 caretakers and teachers of children in early childhood development centers in Nakhonsawan provide. The experimental group participated in a health promotion program based on the concepts of Pender’s health promotion model, received 12- weeks includes educating group discussion, practice skills of health literacy 5 skills access, understand, communicate, appraise and apply, exchange learning through Line group and praise the caretaker and teachers of children of the role models. Data were collected through a 3-part questionnaire: personal data, health literacy, and COVID-19 prevention behaviors. Instruments were examined for content validity by qualified experts, Content Validity Index (CVI), yielding values of 0.95 and 0.97, respectively. Reliability was tested by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, yielding values of 0.87 and 0.92, respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Paired sample t-tests. Results were as follows; the Mean score on health literacy of the experimental group, after receiving the health promotion program was statistically significantly higher than before at the 0.01 level, and the mean score on COVID-19 prevention behaviors of the experimental group, after receiving the health promotion program was statistically significantly higher than before at the 0.001 level. The findings of this study suggested that this program should be recommended for the prevention of ion COVID-19 in the Early Childhood Development Center.