Health Literacy and Administrative Factors Affecting Prevention and Control of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever among Village Health Volunteers in Roi Et Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study health literacy and administrative factors affecting the prevention and control of dengue hemorrhagic fever by the village health volunteers in Roi-et province, Thailand.
A set of 220 samples was randomly selected by stratified random sampling techniques from 34,142 of populations. Data was collected by questionnaires for quantitative data and
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 at 0.97. Data was collected between 12^th January 2023 to 12^th February 2023. Data analysis was performed by descriptive include Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, Median, Minimum and Maximum inferential include Pearson 's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Stepwise Multiple Linear Regression Analysis. Statistics at a significant level of 0.05.

The results showed that the overall level of health literacy, administrative factors and the prevention and control dengue hemorrhagic fever were at a high level with averages of 2.56 (S.D. = 0.26), 2.62 (S.D. = 0.28) and 2.67 (S.D. = 0.28), respectively. Overall of Health literacy and administrative factors had a high relationship with the prevention and control dengue hemorrhagic fever among village health volunteers (r = 0.736, r = 0.792, p-value = 0.001), respectively. Five variables consisted of two variables of  health literacy; communication skill and self-management including three variables of administrative factors; management, time and technology affected and could jointly predicted the prevention and control dengue hemorrhagic fever among village health volunteers in Roi-et province at 82.5 percentage (R²=0.825, p-value<0.001). As a result of the in-depth interviews, the interviewees provided additional information on five important issues: planning, supervision, communication, and promoting the use of technology to prevention and control of dengue fever. The study suggestion that, there should be activities to promote health literacy and administrative skills to increase efficiency in prevention and control of dengue fever in the community.