Factors Related to the Health Promotion Performance for Patients with chronic kidney disease of Village Health Volunteers at Pong Hai Sub-district, Seka District, Bueng Kan Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to examine the health promotion performance for patients with chronic kidney disease and the factors that related to the health promotion performance for patients with chronic kidney disease of Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) at Pong Hai Subdistrict, Seka District, Bueng Kan Province. A sample of 280 VHVs who were selected by using a simple random sampling method. Data were collected by using a content validity questionnaire by 3 experts. The IOC score of all items was 0.71-1.00. The total IOC was 0.92. The overall confidence value of all items was 0.95. The data were then analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, inferential statistics using Chi-square and Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient. The results showed that the performance of health promotion for patients with chronic kidney disease of VHVs was mostly at a moderate level accounted for 53.2%, followed by a high level accounted for 35.7% and a low level accounted for 11.1%, respectively. The factors related to the performance of health promotion for chronic kidney disease patients of VHVs including motivation for performance, social support, age, and occupation (p-value <0.001, p-value <0.001, p-value = 0.026 and p-value = 0.007, respectively) were related to VHVs’ performance in promoting health for patients with chronic kidney disease.

Therefore, relevant agencies should encourage village health volunteers to work more in promoting the health of chronic kidney disease patients by giving them opportunities to participate from the process of creating community health plans to drive to promote the health of chronic kidney disease patients, and there should be activities to create motivation and social support to a group of village health volunteers.