Influence on Proactive Coronavirus 2019 Preventive Motivation in the Community among Village Health Volunteers

Abstract

This descriptive study aimed to examine the influence on proactive motivation among village health volunteers (VHVs) in the prevention and control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the community during the first wave of the epidemic in Thailand. The subjects of this study were 2,700 VHVs randomly selected from the population of over 1 million VHVs throughout the country. Data were collected through online questionnaire which had index of item-objective congruence (IOC) between 0.67 to 1.00 and the Cronbach alpha coefficient reliability of 0.884. The data were analyzed by using the descriptive statistics and simple regression. Study results revealed that motivation on the control of COVID-19 among VHV during the first outbreak presented was at the highest level (Mean=4.71, SD=0.39). Likewise, the operation on disease control proactive activity shown at the highest level (Mean=2.73, SD=0.34). The motivation among village health volunteers was slightly correlated with proactive disease prevention of COVID-19 during first wave of COVID-19 (R=0.418) which implied that there would be other factors associated with the motivation. Nevertheless, such motivation could predict upto 15.90% of operation activity for control of COVID-19 in communities among village health volunteers (adj R2=0.159).