Effects of Health Literacy Promotion Program for COVID-19 Surveillance Behavior among Village Health Volunteers in Nongnakhom District Khonkaen Province

Abstract

COVID-19 is an emerging disease that is considered a major public health problem. Because due to a global pandemic. This research purpose is to study the effects of a health literacy promotion program on COVID-19 surveillance behavior among village health volunteers (VHV) in Bankok Sub-District, Nongnakhom District, Khonkaen Province. This is quasi-experimental research. The subjects were Bankok Sub-District village health volunteers, which consisted of 33 experimental groups, and Kudtad Sub-District village health volunteers, which consisted of 33 compared groups. The experimental group received a health literacy promotion program for the behavior of surveillance for COVID-19 created by researchers, including VHV Access, VHV Understanding, VHV Appraisal, and VHV Application, True operations, Learning summary and the comparison group was encouraged to conduct COVID-19 surveillance according to the standards of the Ministry of Health as usual. It takes 10 weeks to complete the experimental process. Data was collected with questionnaires, including general information, health literacy, and surveillance operations for COVID-19. The data was analyzed using techniques such as the descriptive statistics the independent t-test and paired t-test. The statistical significance level was set at 0.05.
The results found that: 1) After the experiment, the experimental group had average health literacy scores for COVID-19 Surveillance that were statistically significantly higher than the comparison (Mean difference 4.33, 95%CI 3.81–4.79, p<0.001). and were statistically significantly higher than control groups (Mean difference 4.42, 95% CI 3.97–4.87, p 0.001). And 2) After the experiment, the experimental group had an average COVID-19 surveillance operation that was statistically significantly higher than the comparison (Mean difference = 8.33, 95%CI 7.36–9.30, p < 0.001). And they were statistically significantly higher than (Mean difference 10.69, 95% CI 9.70–11.69, p < 0.001). Therefore, Health Literacy Promotion Program on COVID-19 Surveillance Behavior can be applied to develop health literacy in COVID-19 surveillance and behavior of surveillance for COVID-19 in the village health volunteers with the COVID-19 surveillance model “SOB. TID. ROW. MOR3” together with health literacy activities created by the researcher.