Correlation of perception disease severity to implementation role for control of COVID-19 in communities among village health volunteers in Thailand
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This correlational research aimed to study perception of disease severity, implementation role for control of COVID-19 in communities and correlation and predicting power of perception of disease severity to implementation role for control of COVID-19 in communities among 10,400 village health volunteers in Thailand. Data were collected through online questionnaires which showed Cronbach alpha coefficient of perception of disease severity 0.773 and 0.917 of implementation role for control of COVID-19 in communities. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, simple regression and multiple regression.
Study results revealed that perception of disease severity of COVID-19 among village health volunteers was at the highest level (X = 4.75, SD = 0.42). Likewise, implementation role for control of COVID-19 in communities among village health volunteers was at high level (X = 2.75, SD = 0.32). Perception of disease severity of COVID-19 was moderately positively correlated with implementation role for control of COVID-19 in communities among village health volunteers (R = 0.416) and could predict 17.30 % of implementation role for control of COVID-19 in communities among village health volunteers (R2 = 0.173).
Village health volunteers should be understood on the emerging disease and encouraged them to monitor development and situation of COVID-19 continuously. The relaxing activities as well as adaptation methods both in current situation and recovery period for giving knowledge to affected people should be trained.
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