Influences Affecting the Practice of Respiratory Communicable Disease Control Strategies of Community Leaders in Pang Ta Wai Subdistrict, Kamphaeng Phet Province

Abstract

The cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to explore personal factors, knowledge, and attitudes in implementing respiratory disease control strategies, and to investigate factors relating to and influencing this implementation among community leaders in Pang Ta Wai subdistrict, Kamphaeng Phet province. A total of 132 persons were selected by systematic random sampling. Data were collected between 23 August 2022 and 30 September 2022 by using a questionnaire and then analyzed to determine frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, and regression analyses. The results showed that most of them were married, a mean age was 51.40 years, completed primary schooling, and had 12.27 years of work experience. After implementation, the participants had moderate levels of knowledge, attitudes, and skillful practices. The factors significantly related to the implementation were years of work as community leaders, knowledge, and attitudes. The factors significantly influencing the implementation were the knowledge and attitudes of community leaders. Both factors could predict 15.7% (R²=0.157) of the variations. Thus, the capacity of community leaders should be enhanced to improve their knowledge and attitudes for the effective implementation of respiratory disease control strategies.