Effectiveness of Participatory Learning Program on Knowledge and Practice of Village Health Volunteers for Taking Care of Hypertension Patients Roi-Et Hospital

Abstract

Purpose : To aimed to investigate effectiveness of the participatory learning program on the knowledge and practice of village health volunteers in caring for hypertensive patients.

Study design : This quasi-experimental study with one group pretest-posttest design.

Materials and Methods : Purposive sampling the research as tools to collect quantitative  from  35 volunteer health workers form villages in Roi-Et Hospital. Study between May – June  2566. The research instrument included the participatory learning program on the knowledge and practice of village health volunteers in caring for hypertensive patients. A questionnaire was used to collected data, were divided into three parts: collected for people^,s demographics data, asked about hypertension knowledge test, and health practice questionnaire were. Analyzed data by statistical software. Descriptive statistics used in this study were frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and co- correlation coefficient Paired t-test to compare knowledge and practice of health before and after training.

Main findings : The research results found that most of samples were aged between 61-70 years old (40.0%), female (82.9%), marital status (42.9%), educated at the upper secondary/vocational level (51.4%), housewives (34.3%), most of the time of duty as village health volunteers 11-20 years (37.1%), them had experience in caring for patients with hypertension (91.4%), had experience taking care of families with hypertension patients.(85.0%)The sample group had more average scores of knowledge and practice on health care for hypertension after training in the program than before training statistically significant at the 0.05 level.

Conclusion and recommendations : The results of this research resulted in target group having increased knowledge and practice on health care for hypertension.