Factors Predicting Alcohol Drinking Behaviors among Village Health Volunteer
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This descriptive predictive correlational research aimed to examine alcohol drinking behavior and predicting factors of alcohol drinking behavior in Village Health Volunteer (VHVs). A multi-stage random sampling was used to recruit a sample of 272 VHVs in the Tao-Ngoi District Sakon Nakhon Province. Data were collected during June to July, 2020. Research instruments included a demographic questionnaire, Drinking Refusal Self Efficacy questionnaire, Positive Alcohol Expectancy questionnaire and The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT). Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression.
Results revealed that most VHVs had low risk drinker (Mean = 4.82, SD = 7.044). Results of regression analysis indicated that drinking refusal self efficacy was the best predictor ( = -.573, p-value < .001) the second was positive alcohol expectancy (
=.110, p-value = .029). All these two predictors accounted for 37.1% of the variance in the prediction of alcohol drinking behavior in VHVs (p-value < .001). These findings suggest that the personal involving with the development of Village Health Volunteer should develop a program to change alcohol drinking behavior by promoting drinking refusal self efficacy and decreasing positive alcohol expectancy.
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