The effectiveness of home visit and training program in village health volunteers in Khwao, Selaphum, Roi Et. 2012

Abstract

This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the potential of home visit program and training invillage health volunteers in Khwao, Selaphum, Roi Et (N = 125). The pre-training data of home visit wascollected from April 1 to 30, 2012. Observation and a questionnaire were used to collect the data. Then, a
home visit program was provided with pretest – posttest evaluation on May 16, 2012. During the weekdays,fve to seven village health volunteers participated in daily home visit with rotation training approach. Then,the post-training data was collected from May 18 to June 30, 2012. Frequency and percentage were usedto analyze personal attributes of the population the same as the knowledge of home visit. Mean and standarddeviation were used to analyze the practice. Paired t-test was used to compare pre-training and post-trainingknowledge the same as pre-training and post-training practice.

The results indicated that, after providing the home visit program and training, the knowledge andpractice of village health volunteers signifcantly improved at statistical level of 0.05.This study concluded thathome visit program, a clear home visit guideline, the participation of village health volunteer, careful planning
in advance, on-site monitoring and evaluating by health personnel, and monthly report should be provided inorder to improve home visit network.