Health Literacy Associated with Preventing and Controlling Behavior of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever among Village Health Volunteers in Nong Yai Sub-district, Prasat District, Surin Province

Abstract

This descriptive research aimed to study health literacy associated with preventing and controlling behavior of dengue hemorrhagic fever among village health volunteers. Population in this study consisted of 186 village health volunteers in Nong Yai Sub-district, Prasat District, Surin Province. Participants were 139 village health volunteers calculated by Daniel formula and selected by systematic random sampling. Data were collected by questionnaires which consisted of 3 parts including, characteristics, health literacy and dengue hemorrhagic fever preventing and controlling behavior. In addition, to check questionnaire standardization, validity was checked by 3 experts and try out was done for testing reliability (Cronbach’s coefficient alpha=0.93). Data were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient.

The results showed that the preventing and controlling behavior of dengue hemorrhagic fever among village health volunteers had mean score at high levels (93.53%), and health literacy had mean score at a high level (57.91%). When testing the association, the findings illustrated that health literacy had significantly positive association with preventing and controlling behavior of dengue hemorrhagic fever among village health volunteers in Nong Yai Sub-district, Prasat District, Surin Province (r = 0.710, p-value <0.001).