Factors Predicting Preventive Behaviors towards Dengue Fever of the People in Huai Kha Khaeng Forest line, Lansak Sub-district, Uthai Thani Province
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This research was a cross-sectional descriptive study that aimed to investigate the people who lived in Huai Kha Khaeng forest line, Lansak sub-district, Uthai Thani province about their behaviors in preventing Dengue fever. The participants were 391 people in Huai Kha Khaeng forest line, Lansak sub-district, Uthai Thani province. The research instruments was a questionnaire concerned factors affecting people’s preventive behaviors on Dengue fever that have KR-20 and Cronbach's alpha values between 0.75-0.90. The data were analyzed into frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, coefficient of non-linear relationship (eta), and multiple regression analysis.
The research findings suggest that the samples had preventive behaviors on Dengue fever in moderate level (X= 29.48, SD = 5.94). Stepwise multiple regression analysis illustrates that social support (β=.36, p<.001), skillfulness in using resources to prevent and control Dengue fever (β= .05, p< .001), the existence of shells in neighborhood (β= .069, p<.001), the expectation of effectiveness towards response to preventive behaviors on Dengue fever (β= .03, p<.001), water containers (β=.02, p=.001), resource sufficiency (β=.01, p= .006), perceptions on Dengue fever’s severity (β=.01, p=.002), perceptions on risk of Dengue fever infection (β= .01, p=.002), accommodation conditions (β=.01,p=0.031), and knowledge concerning Dengue fever (β= .01, p= .041) were capable to predict preventive behaviors on Dengue hemorrhagic fever of people in Huai Kha Khaeng forest line (54.30%)
With respect to recommendation, those factors should be employed for changing prevention behaviors towards Dengue hemorrhagic fever among the people in order to address the proper behavior as well as increase the effectiveness of Dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention.
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