Empowering in Dengue Fever Prevention and Control Participation Model of Community Leaders of Nong Chok Subdistrict Health Promoting Hospital Responsibility Area, Ban Rai District, Uthai Thani Province

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to examine empowering in dengue fever prevention and control participation model of community leaders of Nong Chok Subdistrict Health Promoting Hospital responsibility area, Ban Rai District, Uthai Thani Province. The 4 steps of Gibson concepts were applied for study including 1) discovering reality 2) Critical reflection 3) Taking charge, and 4) Holding on. This study methodology was action research. The population and simple were 35 community leaders of Nong Chok Subdistrict Health Promoting Hospital responsibility area, Ban Rai District, Uthai Thani, and selected by purposive random sampling. The study instrument was a community leader empowering model and a questionnaire. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation, t-test, and content analysis.
The study results revealed that community leaders can analyze the problem of dengue fever in the community, explain the relationship of dengue fever occurrence and summarize the concepts and methods of disease prevention and control correctly. The community leaders could write plans and implementation strategies to allow people to participate in prevent and control dengue fever activities. The community leaders were accepted by the people when they practice in the community. The people spoke highly of his community leadership. The people had increased faith in community leaders. The community leaders felt positive about the empowerment model for participation in dengue fever prevention and control. There was a greater understanding of creating the power of participation that will allow peoples to participate in community activities. After implemented an empowerment model, community leaders had higher knowledge about dengue fever prevention and control before implemented an empowerment model at a statistically significant level of.01, had the participation behavior in dengue fever prevention and control higher than before implemented an empowerment model at a statistically significant level of.01, and satisfied with the implemented an empowerment model at a high level.