้Health literacy and elderly health care among village health volunteers in Nakhon Luang district,Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya

Abstract

Abstract

This research aimed to study characteristic factors, health literacy, elderly health care, and study factors (characteristic and health literacy) predict to elderly health care. This research is Analytic Cross-Sectional. The samples are Village health volunteers (VHVs) in Nakhon Luang District, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province, 192 people. The data were collected with questionnaire that was developed by the researcher. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics namely percentage, mean, standard deviation, max, and min. In addition, the influence of variables was analyzed using multiple regression statistics.

                   The research results were shown Village health volunteers (VHVs) were mostly 88.02% female, an average age of 58.94 years, and the average duration of being a VHV was 12.97 years. Most of them had health literacy for elderly health care at a very good level 61.46%. There was the elderly health care performance at a good level 36.46%. The behavioral change and word-of-mouth skills, which were the components of health literacy, had positively effect on the elderly health care performance of VHVs at 5% level of statistically significant (β = 0.287, p-value = 0.014), (β = 0.282, p-value = 0.021), respectively.

                   The recommendations from the research result, the Village health volunteers (VHVs) should be encouraged to have good behavioral change and word-of-mouth skills. To promote the performance of high-quality elderly health care.

Keywords: Health Literacy, Elderly, Village health volunteers (VHVs)