Factors affecting Coronavirus disease 2019 infection among health volunteers in Wang Nuea District, Lampang Province
Keywords:
Health literacy, Coronavirus disease 2019, Health volunteersAbstract
The health volunteers were the important front-line people in surveillance and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) control; however, they are at risk of disease infection. The cross-sectional study aimed to study the characteristics, health literacy, prevention behaviors, COVID-19 infection, and factors affecting COVID-19 infection among health volunteers in Wang Nuea District. The 302 samples of health volunteers in Wang Nuea District were selected by using the multistage sampling method. Data collection was conducted using a questionnaire. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression analysis.
The results showed that most of the study subjects were female (80.1%), had an age average of 51.33 years old, were married (76.5%), went to primary school (52.3%), occupation was agricultural workers (62.3%), and had an average of years of working experience of 12.53 years. The level of health literacy: knowledge, and decision-makingwere at high levels (85.8% and 61.6%), the assessment of health information and health services, communication, self-management, and media literacy were at moderate levels (53.0%, 54.6%, 55.3%, and 54.3%, respectively) and prevention behaviors of COVID-19 was at high levels (82.1%). Factors significantly affecting COVID-19 infection were gender, age, education, health literacy of communication, health literacy of self-management, and prevention behaviors of COVID-19 (p-value < 0.05). Thus, a health organization should promote health literacy and disease prevention behaviors of COVID-19 to improve the health volunteers' adequacy performance.
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