Relationship between Health Belief and Prevention Behaviors of COVID-19 among Security Guards at Naresuan University
Keywords:
Health belief, COVID-19, Prevention behavior, Security guardAbstract
The objectives of this descriptive correlational research were to study health belief, prevention behaviors of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) and determine the relationship between health belief and the COVID-19 prevention behaviors of security guards at Naresuan University. The samples of 128 security guards working at Naresuan University were systematic randomly selected by their identification number. The research instruments were the questionnaires of health belief and the COVID-19 prevention behaviors. The content validity indexes of the questionnaires were 0.95 and 1.0, respectively. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of the questionnaires were 0.82 and 0.87, respectively. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and Spearman rank correlation coefficient. The results revealed that the overall health belief and the overall COVID-19 prevention behaviors of the security guards were at the high level ( = 3.01, SD = .37 and = 2.59, SD = .35, respectively). The health belief had moderate and positive relationship (r = 0.31), and statistically significant (p < .001) with COVID-19 prevention behaviors of the security guards.
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