ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HEALTH LITERRACY WITH COVID-19 PREVENTION BEHAVIORS OF VILLAGE HEALTH VOLUNTEERS IN UBON RATCHATHANI PROVINCE

Abstract

This research is a cross-sectional descriptive study. to study the level of health literacy The level of COVID-19 prevention behavior and the relationship between health literacy and COVID-19 prevention behavior of village health volunteers in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Data were collected from 195 village health volunteers in Ubon Ratchathani province by a simple random sampling method. Questionnaires were used with a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient between 0.73 - 0.74. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and correlation analysis with Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient statistics. The results showed that village health volunteers in Ubon Ratchathani Province were randomly selected from 195 people. Most were female at 87.5%, aged between 50 - 59 years; 39.9%, and 64.1% of family members had never been diagnosed with COVID-19; most had received 3 doses of COVID-19 vaccination, 66.7% Their overall health literacy was at a moderate level, at 68.2%. COVID-19 prevention behaviors were at a level that should be adjusted to 61.5%. and when testing the relationship, they were overall health literacy, communication skills, self-management skills, decision-making skills, media literacy skills, cognitive skills, and access to health information and health services skills. There was a statistically significant positive correlation with COVID-19 prevention behavior. (r = .524, .421, .398, .344, .307, .223 and .218) p-value < .05 respectively). Therefore, there should be a promotion of health literacy among health volunteers in solving health problems in the community to monitor, prevent, and control the spread of emerging diseases in the future.