DEVEPOPMENT OF BUDDHIST HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM TO PREVENTED PRESSION OF VULNERABLE IN NAKHONRATCHASIMA

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) study the general status of Buddhist health promotionfor vulnerable groups in Nakhonratchasima Province, 2) create                         a Buddhist health promotion program to prevent depression in vulnerable groups in Nakhonratchasima Province, and 3) study the results of using the Buddhist health promotion program to prevent depression invulnerable groupsin Nakhonratchasima Province. the qualitative research was conducted by studying documents. data collection was conducted by in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with 50 participants. the results of the research were as follows: 1. General status of Buddhist health promotion for vulnerable groups  in Nakhonratchasima Province. In general, when the elderly were tested  for depression, which was the Ramathibodi Hospital's depression scale, the elderly's level was found to be at a moderate and rather severe level this greatly affected their daily lives because their condition was unavoidable and they still could not access sources of care or treatment from specialist doctors and received advice on how to take care of themselves. 2. Creating a Buddhist health promotion program to prevent depression resulted in a program called S.S.P., which can be interpreted as S. means repairing the heart and healing the body, S. means promoting the Buddhist way of life  to heal the heart, and P. means prevention. 3. Results of using the Buddhist health promotion program to prevent depression in vulnerable groups depression in the elderly in the target group with moderate, moderately severe and severe symptoms using a program called S.S.P. found that those with moderate depression symptoms improved for those with moderately severe symptoms, it still took longer than those with moderate symptoms the program promoting Buddhist ways to prevent depression has good results, the program must be further developed to be more consistent with  the current situation.