Factors Affecting to Health Perception and Social Support on Health Promoting Behavior of Village Health Volunteers in Bumnetnarong District, Chaiyaphum Province

Abstract

This study was a cross-sectional analytical research. The purposes were health perception and social support factors that can predict health promoting behavior of village health volunteers. The subjects group consistedof 370 cases of study obtained from village health volunteers in Bumnetnarong District Chaiyaphum Province.Multi-stage random sampling was performed. The developed questionnaire was used as a tool to collect employedquantitative data. The content validity was improved and adjusted by the suggestion of the experts. Using Cronbach’salpha coeffcient tested the reliability of the assessment tools; were health perception 0.75 level, social support0.75 level and health promoting behavior 0.76 level. Data analysis was done by computer program. Statistics
were to acquire frequencies, percentage, means, standard deviation and stepwise multiple regression analysis atthe 0.05 level signifcant.
The result revealed that: village health volunteers’s health perception, social support and health promotingbehavior at the moderate level. The factors that signifcantly influenced their health promoting behavior were socialsupport and the occupation can predict health promoting of village health volunteers. The accurate for predict was7.50% (R2 =0.075).In summary, the related organization, public health offce and local government should support material,
instructional media and knowledge about public health, focusing on village health volunteers’s increasing healthpromoting behavior.