Factors affecting behavior in preventing hand, foot, and mouth disease in children of parents of Sam Chuk Subdistrict Municipality. Sam Chuk District, Suphan Buri Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research are 1) to study parents' knowledge, attitude, and behavior in preventing hand, foot, and mouth disease in children; 2) to study parents' patterns of health beliefs about hand, foot, and mouth disease in children; 3) to study Relationship between knowledge, attitude, and health belief patterns and parents' behavior to prevent hand, foot, and mouth disease in children. Sample group used in research There were 230 parents whose main responsibility was to care for children, randomly selected in a systematic way. The tool used to collect data was a 5-part questionnaire. The quality of the tool was checked by 5 experts. The index of consistency (IOC) was equal to .98, the difficulty and discriminatory power were equal to .50 and .89 respectively, and the confidence value (Reliability) for the entire version was equal to .86. Statistics used to analyze data Descriptive statistics include frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. and the reference statistics use stepwise multiple regression statistics.
The results of the study found that the majority of the sample were female. Accounting for 68.70%, most are between 31 - 40 years old, 45.70% have a bachelor's degree, 46.50%, most work as general contractors, 34.30%, most average monthly income is between 15,001 - 20,000 baht, 39.10%. Most had knowledge about hand, foot and mouth disease at a high level of knowledge, 49.10%. The mean score of attitudes about hand, foot, and mouth disease was at a very good level (Mean= 4.23, S.D.= 0.51). The mean score of health belief patterns about hand, foot, and mouth disease was overall at a high level (Mean = 4.19, S.D.= 0.34) and had an average score of hand, foot, and mouth disease prevention behavior at a very good practice level (Mean = 4.21, S.D.= 0.55) and factors of attitude about hand, foot and mouth disease, perception of obstacles in preventing hand, foot and mouth disease, factors of knowledge about hand, foot and mouth disease, perception of severity of hand, foot and mouth disease can predict behavior to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease. Mouth got 22.60 percent (β =22.879, p <.01) with statistical significance at .05. Suggestions: Use the results of the study. Used to promote attitudes, knowledge, and belief patterns about health. to the children's parents