ความรู้ ทัศนคติ และพฤติกรรมการป้องกันและควบคุมวัณโรคในอาสาสมัครสาธารณสุขประจำหมู่บ้าน และผู้ดูแลผู้ป่วยวัณโรค ตำบลแม่ตาว อำเภอแม่สอด จังหวัดตาก

Abstract

This cross-sectional survey research aimed to study the knowledge, attitudes and preventive behaviors and control tuberculosis disease, to compared the protection and control tuberculosis disease behaviors and the factors related to protection and control tuberculosis disease behaviors among village health volunteers (VHV), Thai caregivers of tuberculosis patients and migrant’s caregivers of tuberculosis patients in Mae Tao Sub-district, Mae Sot District, Tak Province. The data from 169 subjects were collected by questionnaires. Comparison prevention and control tuberculosis disease behaviors of subjects was performed using Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Least Significant Difference (LSD) and analyzed factors related to preventive behaviors protection and control tuberculosis disease using multiple regression analysis at significant difference P-value < 0.05.

The results found that Thai caregivers of tuberculosis patients get the higher score of knowledge than those other group. All of subjects had good level prevention and control tuberculosis disease attitudes and Thai caregivers of tuberculosis patients had the best protection and control tuberculosis disease behaviors. To computation of mean of preventive behaviors and control tuberculosis disease, Thai caregivers of tuberculosis patients had mean of preventive behaviors and control tuberculosis disease higher than VHV 7.63 score and higher than migrants caregivers of tuberculosis patients 6.28 score and significant difference (P-value< 0.001). The factors significantly associated with the prevention and control tuberculosis disease of subjects were age, status, occupation, frequency in health service using and prevention and control tuberculosis disease attitudes.

According to this study, migrant’s caregivers of tuberculosis patients had knowledge in low level and behaviors mean less than Thai caregivers of tuberculosis patients. Thus, the prevention and control tuberculosis disease knowledge and promoting prevention and control tuberculosis disease behaviors with migrants’ caregivers of tuberculosis and VHV should be given.