Development of Buddhist Health Measuring Instrument - การพัฒนาแบบวัดสุขภาวะองค์รวมแนวพุทธ

บทคัดย่อ

                       The purpose of this study was to develop the Buddhist Health Measuring Instrument for Thai people.  The Venerable Phra Dha, apitaka (P.A.Pyutto) has made the conceptual framework from the concept of Bhavana since 2003.  It was used to explore the healthy state in 4 aspects, namely, physical, emotional, social, and wisdom.  The concept and domain of Buddhistic health was collected and the measuring instrument was constructed.  A set of questionairc was developed and 190 questions was tested in 30 subjects and then revised and approved by the Venerable Phra Dhammapitaka (P.A.  Payutto), the expert in this subject.  The quality of the revised health-measuring instrument was then tested by known groups technique and the results were statistically analyzed for the discrimination index, construct validity, inter-correlation, and reliability.  Finally, 100 questions were selected for the Buddhist Health Measuring Instrument. 

                      The results showed that this measuring instrument was acceptable in term of content validity (r=0.51, ranging from 0.20 - 0.79), and construct validity (alpha = 0.93).  When the measuring instrument was tested in the two sample groups, 210 ear, nose, throat (ENT) patients and 121 HIV/AIDS patients in Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, the average scores of Buddhistic health were 3.33 and 3.43, respectively, representing fair health from their behavior (50% of the situation).  The scores in the 4 domains of Bhavana 4 of the two sample groups were related significantly (p < 0.01), and the wisdom aspect was related to the social aspect and the emotional aspect rather than the physical aspect.

Key words:  Buddhistic Health Measuring Instrument, bhavana 4, physical aspect, social aspect, emotional aspect, wisdom aspect