Health belief model and pesticide protective behaviors of rice farmers in Song Plueai Sub-district, Namon District, Kalasin Province
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This study was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The study focuses on the health belief model and pesticide protective behaviors of rice farmers. It specifically takes place in the Song Plueai Sub-district of the Namon District in Kalasin Province. The objective of the study was to examine the extent of health beliefs and their relationship with pesticide protection behaviors among rice farmers in Song Plueai Sub-district, Namon District, Kalasin Province. The sample size consists of 300 individuals. The data was gathered using a questionnaire divided into three sections: personal information, health beliefs, and self-protection behavior for pesticide use. Three experts verified the questionnaire's content validity, and reliability was examined using Cronbach's alpha coefficients of 0.79 and 0.74, respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The relationship between variables was analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The study found that most rice farmers had a high level of health beliefs and self-protection behaviors regarding the use of pesticides. The analysis of the relationship between variables revealed that perceived susceptibility to pesticide use, perceived severity of harm from pesticide use, perceived benefits of preventing pesticide harm, perceived barriers to preventing pesticide harm, and overall health beliefs about preventing harm from pesticide use were positively correlated with self-protection behaviors among rice farmers in Song Ploei Subdistrict, Namon District, Kalasin Province, with statistical significance at the 0.05 level. Therefore, it was recommended to develop a health belief program to modify behaviors related to pesticide safety and to study the effects of such a program.
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