Quality of Life of Sugarcane Farmers who Work in Huay Yang Sub-District, Kranuan District, Khon Kaen Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study the quality of life and correlation to personal characteristics of sugarcane garmers who worked at Huai Yang Sub - district, Kranuan District,  Khon Kaen Province. Questionnaires were tested content validity by the IOC method (range (0.78-1.00) and reliability was tested by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (occupational factors = 0.74 and = 0.83). These questionnaires were allocated to 118 farmers via a simple random sampling method. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation were used for expressing qualitative data and Chi – square test was manipulated to address the correlation between variables.

The results showed that the overall quality of quality life of sugarcane workers who work in Huai Yang Subdistrict, Kranuan District, Khon Kaen Province was at a moderate level (77.12%). Focused on each aspect, there were three aspects especially found at the moderate level, firstly was a health and duties aspect (88.14%). Secondly, was a social and economic aspects (72.89%) and finally, was a family characteristics aspect (77.97%). Turn to correlation to personal characteristics, two variables were significantly statistical discovered, education level (p-value = 0.005) and family characteristics (p-value = 0.026).