Factor Associated with Dengue Fever Preventive Behavior in People who Live in Kaeng Khro District, Chaiyaphum Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional analytical research aimed to investigate the impact of health literacy on dengue fever, preventive behavior in dengue fever and Factor Associated with Dengue Fever Preventive Behavior in People Who Live in Kaeng Khro District, Chaiyaphum Province. Questionnaires were allocated to 732 villagers for data collection. Descriptive statistics was used to describe general information and multiple logistic regression with 95% confdence intervals and p-value at 0.05 level were used for correlation testing. Results illustrated that more than half of sample were female (64.76%), average age 47.00 (S.D.= 14.27) years old, married (66.94%), no congenital disease (74.59%), graduated primary school (43.44%), farmer (54.37%), income 6,000 baht/year (SD 7654.77), duration of village living between 2-71 years. (Med=40), family members during 1-8 people (Med=4.00), had no dengue fever history (94.95%), dengue fever knowledge at high level (96.72%), health literacy in all 4 aspects were found as following, inadequated level (93.03 %), problematic level (4.64 %), adequate level (1.78%) and excellent level (0.55 %). Focus on the relationship between health literacy of dengue fever prevention, personal characteristics and preventive behaviors, there were found statistics signifcance fve factors. 1) education (OR adj =2.01, 95%CI = 1.17-3.44, p-value = 0.01), 2) occupation (OR adj =2.27, 95%CI =1.32- 3.88, p-value = <0.01), 3) income (OR adj =1.90, 95%CI =1.16-3.11 , p-value = 0.01), 4) health service accessibility aspect of health literacy (OR adj =2.09, 95%CI =1.20-3.61, p-value =<0.01), 5) health information aspect of health literacy (OR adj =2.99, 95%CI =1.69-5.30,p-value = <0.01).