Personal Characteristics and Administrative Factors Affecting The Performance of prevention and Control in Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Of village Health Volunteers At Sichompu District in Khon Kaen Provinc

Abstract

            This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study personal characteristics and administrative factors affecting the performance of prevention and control in dengue hemorrhagic fever of village health volunteers in Sichompu district, Khon Kaen province, Thailand. 167 personnel were randomly selected as samples by stratified random sampling techniques from 1,572 populations who were village health volunteers in Sichompu district, Khon Kaen province. Data was collected by questionnaires for quantitative data and used in-depth interview guidelines for qualitative data gathering from 13 key informants.            The questionnaire was examined and verified by three experts for content validity with items objective congruence (IOC), all items were more than 0.50, and reliability with Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.93. Data was collected between 11^th to 31^st January 2021. Data analysis was performed by descriptive and inferential statistics at a significant level of 0.05

        The results showed that the overall administrative factors and the performance of dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control were at a high level with averages of 2.46 (S.D. = 0.37) and 2.5 (S.D. = 0.25) respectively. Duration of being a village health volunteer of personal characteristics had a low relationship with the performance of dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control of village health volunteers (r = 0.161, p-value = 0.038), and the overall administrative factors had a moderate relationship with the performance of dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control of village health volunteers (r = 0.609, p-value < 0.001). The results found that three variables of administrative factors; management, technology, and money affected and could jointly predict the performance of dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control of village health volunteers in Sichompu district, Khon Kaen province at 38.1 percent (R2 = 0.381, p-value < 0.001).