Factors Related to Primary Health Care among Village Health Volunteers Keelek Municipality, Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

This study was a cross-sectional survey. The objective was to study the primary health care of village health volunteers and factors related to the primary health care of village health volunteers. The sample group was 109 village health volunteers in Kheelek Municipality, Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai Province. Data was collected through a questionnaire, and an informal interview. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Chi-Square test, and content analysis. The results found that, overall, the village health volunteers have an average primary health care level at a moderate level (= 3.31, S.D. = 0.47). Factors related to the primary health care of village health volunteers include meetings and training about health care and receiving information about health care. Statistically significant at the 0.05 level (p-value = 0.009 and 0.022). This study has recommendations to continuously study the health situation of village health volunteers in order to obtain real health information about changing self-care behaviors and to organize basic health care training for volunteers. Village public health in the areas of physical, mental, social, and spiritual health care in order to be aware of their own health care.