Motivation and Administrative Factors Affecting the Dependent Elderly Care of the Village Health Volunteer at Si Bun Rueang District in Nong Bua Lam Phu Province
Abstract
This cross sectional descriptive research aimed to study motivation and administrative factors affecting the dependent elderly care of the village health volunteer at Si Bun Rueang District in Nong Bua Lum Phu province. The samples were 242 personnel randomly selected by stratified random sampling from the 2,195 population. Data was collected both quantitative and qualitative data. Focus group guideline was included to collect the data from 12 key in formats who could provide intensive information on the topics. The questionnaire was examined and verified by the three experts for content validity and tested for the Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient was at 0.98. Data collected between April 20th 2018 – May 20th 2018 and analyzed by descriptive statistics including percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, minimum, maximum, and inferential statistics were pearson product moment correlation and stepwise multiple linear regressions.
The result showed that. The motivation, motivation factors, hygiene factors were at high level with averages of 2.42 (S.D.=0.37), 2.35 (S.D.=0.38) and 2.25 (S.D.= 0.44) , respectively. Administrative factors was moderate level with averages of 2.25 (S.D.=0.40) and the dependent elderly care of the village health volunteer was at high level with averages of 2.37 (S.D.=0.42). The motivation, motivation factors, hygiene factors and administrative factors had moderately positive relationship with the dependent elderly care of the village health volunteer at Si Bun Rueang District in Nong Bua Lum Phu province with (r=0.650, p-value<0.001, r=0.595, p-value<0.001, r=0.590, p-value<0.001 and r=0.692, p-value<0.001), respectively. Four motivation variable; working time, interpersonal relation with superiors and peers, material and responsibility variable management predict the village health volunteer at Si Bun Rueang District in Nong Bua Lum Phu province at 66.5 percentages.
