Factors related to the participation of community leaders for the prevention and control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in phanat nikhom district, Chonburi province
Abstract:
This study is a cross-sectional descriptive research study. The purpose of the study is to investigate the factors of the community leaders participation in preventing and controlling the COVID-19 in Phanat Nikhom District, Chon Buri Province. The data were collected from a group of 264 community leaders obtained from multi-stage sampling by using the questionnaires with the content validation by the three experts. The IOC values were 0.69 -0.92. The Cronbachs alpha coefficients were 0.74 0.94. Regarding the knowledge about COVID-19, the difficulty was 0.66. The data were analyzed with percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson product moment correlation and chi-square statistic. The results was found that most of the community leaders were male (71.59%). Their average age was 50.14 (±8.15) years. Their highest education level was the secondary school or vocational certificate (35.98%). Their average income was 13,960.72 (±15,588.43) baht per month. Most of them were the assistant village head man (60.61%). Their average term to be the officer was 7.03 (±5.49) years. They had the average time of experiences in preventing and controlling other diseases of 1.28 (±3.62) years. They had the highest percentage of the experiences in preventing and controlling the vector bovver diseases (66.86%). The community leaders had the knowledge (Mean = 9.59±1.46) and attitudes (Mean = 3.20±0.56) about the prevent control of COVID-19 at the moderate levels. it was found that the risk perception (Mean = 4.13±0.53), severity perception (Mean = 4.38±0.65), benefit perception (Mean = 3.87±0.62), received social supports (Mean = 3.65 ±0.68) and societies expectations (Mean = 3.66 ±0.74) were at the high levels. The received resources (Mean = 3.55 ±0.70) was at the moderate level. It was found that the community leaders participation was at the high level (Mean = 2.42 ±0.39). Most of them participated in the implementation period (67.43%). The attitudes (r = 0.156, p-value = 0.011), risk perception (r = 0.182, p-value = 0.003), severity perception (r = 0.252, p-value < 0.001), benefit perception (r = 0.207, p-value = 0.001), received resources (r = 0.291, p-value < 0.001), received social supports (r = 0.488, p-value < 0.001) and societies expectations (r = 0.475, p-value < 0.001) were positive statistically significant related with the community leaders participation in preventing and controlling COVID-19 at level of 0.05. The suggestions were that the related organizations should emphasize communicated about the disease severity and the adaptation of environment for prevention and control the COVID-19 both community and control improvement model by the network partners should be recommend for sustainable and concretely development.