Health-Related Quality of Life, Secondary School Students in Amphoe Mueang, Rayong Province, Thailand - คุณภาพชิวิตที่เกี่ยวข้องกับสุขภาพนักเรียนมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้น ในอำเภอเมือง จังหวัดระยอง

Abstract

This cross-sectional study was conducted from 1st November 2010 to 31th December 2011 in
three early secondary schools in Amphoe Mueang, Rayong province, Thailand, to assess the healthrelated
quality of life (HRQOL) among secondary school students and identify the related factors
with different geographic environment. The data were collected from 249 students in industrial area
(zone A), 268 students in urban area (zone B), and 256 students in rural area (zone C) by simple
random sampling. Students’s health-related quality of life was self administered by using PedsQLTM.
The results showed that among 773 students aged between 13 and 15 years old, 16.1 percent of
students had low health-related quality of life in zone A, 16.8 percent in zone B and 11.0 percent in
zone C. The multiple linear regression revealed that only four variables: self-esteem, gender, family
crisis, and zone of students (p-value < 0.05) could predict the total mean health-related quality of life
scores.
Based on the study results, it is recommended that schools should conduct more programs of
life skill developments in family, community and school, which enables students to manage different
problems more effectively and enhance more health-related quality of life.
Key words: quality of life, health-related quality of life, secondary school students