A Study on the Readiness of the Development of Health Promotion Temples that have Trained Phra Kilanuphatthaks to Health Literacy Temple according to the Department of Health Standard in the 7th Health Region

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to study the readiness of Health Promotion Temples with Phra Kilanuphatthaks for their development Health Literacy Temple according to the Department of Health standard in the 7th Health Region. It is an evaluation research using quantitative and qualitative methods. Data collection was done by using questionnaires and transcribing lessons learned in operating system analysis according to the CIPPO MODEL framework. The total samples were 144 persons, including 68 Phra Kilanupatthaks, 4 Supervisor monks and 4 health workers, from Kalasin, Khon Kaen, Maha Sarakham and Roi Et provinces. Data was collected by using knowledge management workshop 1 day per province, during 24 - 27 February 2020. The research results were found that, the readiness of the development of Health Promotion Temples that have trained Phra Kilanuphatthaks to Health Literacy Temple according to the Department of Health Standard, overall was in moderate level, the lowest rate factor that should be developed was input factor including the need to be developed knowledge on public health, documents and the devices for working, for example blood pressure monitor, thermometer, medicine, etc. Process factors include, principles/planning, activities procedures cooperation, material management, it was found that villagers and community provided good cooperation to Phra Kilanupatthaks who had executive roles in promoting and supporting various projects in the community. Scores of both factors were 2.9±0.6 และ 2.8±0.6 espectively. As for the performance evaluation of the Phra Kilanuphatthak, it was found that 100% of the Phra Kilanuphatthak received good support from their networks, 73.6% of them were able to changed their health behaviors to be an example for monks and villagers. Lesson learned from “Ruang Lao Rau Palung” and knowledge management process showed that Phra ilanuphatthak in every province had excellent performance, planning and worked as a committee that could created community participation. community, It was suggested that this pattern should be continued to be able to develop the temples to be Health Literacy Temple in the future. However, there should be a policy to promote the training of Phra Kilanupatthak to cover all levels of the region, promote knowledge skills as a communicator for Phra Kilanupatthak to continuously create perception of the people and the network at all levels, and laying out the organizational structure to create a clearly linkage system, including indicated duties related to policy relevance, continuous work development, and set standards to support efficiency operations at lower levels.