Development of a Community Health Literacy for Prevention and Surveillance of Rabies under the Concept of Sub-district Quality of Life Management, Pong Nam Ron Sub-district, Pong Nam Ron District, Chanthaburi Province

Abstract

This participatory action research aimed to develop a community health literacy for prevention and surveillance of rabies under the concept of sub-district quality of life management and determine the outcomes of the development at Pong Nam Ron Sub-district, Pong Nam Ron District, Chanthaburi Province. The participants were 60 quality of life development committee and 110 people. The research instruments included a checklist of evaluation of development of a community health literacy under the concept of sub-district quality of life management, and a questionnaire of health literacy of rabies prevention and surveillance with reliability as .74. The four steps of the research process including team building, planning, implementing, and result evaluation were conducted from April, 2020 to February, 2021. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and paired t-test.

The research results revealed that 1) the development of a community health literacy for prevention and surveillance of rabies under the concept of sub-district quality of life management (TPAR) were composed of team building, situation analysis, goal setting, cooperative planning, practice guideline making, knowledge providing, pet surveying, rabies vaccination, and result evaluation; 2) at the end of the TPAR process, the total score of the development result was at a high level; and 3) after participating in TPAR process, the quality of life development committee and the people had statistically significantly higher mean scores of health literacy of rabies prevention and surveillance than those of before participating in TPAR process (p < .01 and p < .001, respectively).

This research suggests that persons working in community development in other settings should apply these practice guidelines for prevention and surveillance of rabies to solve the rabies problems. This will help reduce the incidence of rabies.