Relationship between Organizational Supports and the Performance on Iodine Defciency Disorder Prevention in Pregnant Women by Village Health volunteers, Naphu, Pen, Udon Thani Province.

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study the organizational supports that relate to the performance on Iodine defciency prevention among pregnant women by village health volunteers in Naphu, Pen, Udon Thani province of 72 village health volunteers were enrolled to the study. Instrument was developed by researcher and reliability test with alpha 0.94. Data were collected during January 9 - 30, 2013 by questionnaire. The fndings showed that, as a whole, the level of organizational support was high (4.05 = 0.34). The  level ofperformanceonIodinedefciencydisorderpreventionwasalsohigh(3.21=0.31).Theorganizationalsupporthad highlypositiverelationshipwiththeperformanceonIodinedefciencydisorderpreventionatasignifcantlevel(r=0.775,p-value < 0.001). Two organizational supports, namely, administration and human resource together could signifcantly predict the performance on Iodine defciency prevention in pregnant women at 63.60%. The fndings also indicated that most problems suggested in the questionnaire involved with materials (48.80%).