Administrative Factors Affecting The Corovirus Disease 2019 Prevention and Control Performance of Village Health Volunteers at Khon Kaen

Abstract

The objective of this cross-sectional descriptive research was to investigate the administrative factors affecting the coronavirus disease 2019 prevention and control performance of village health volunteers at Khon Kaen province. The population consisted of 33,838 village health volunteers at Khon Kaen province. To calculate the sample group in this study, 220 people were randomly sampled using a Multi-stage Sampling method. The research instrument was a questionnaire which was validated by 3 experts for content validity. All items had an Item Objective Congruence greater than 0.5 and the reliability of the questionnaire was Cronba's alpha coefficient of 0.96 The data was collected between November 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. Statistics used to analyze data were descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, including Pearson's correlation and stepwise multiple linear regression, with a significance level of 0.05.

The results of the study revealed that the overall administrative factors and the coronavirus disease 2019 prevention and control performance of village health volunteers at Khon Kean province were at a high level with a mean of 2.39 (S.D.=0.31) and mean 2.54 (S.D.=0.33) respectively. It was found that the overall of administrative factors had a moderate relationship with the coronavirus disease 2019 prevention and control performance (r=0.538, p-value < 0.001), and found that administrative factors; technology factors, time factor and man factors able to jointly predict the coronavirus disease 2019 prevention and control  performance of village health v­­olunteers at Khon Kean province at 36.8% (R²=0.368) Therefore, the agencies should promote more effective training and knowledge on the use of  technology in the prevention and control of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in village health volunteers.