Knowledge and Practice in Controlling and Preventing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) of Public Health Volunteers in Non Soong Community Village, Udon Thani Province

Abstract

Descriptive study has the objective to study Knowledge and practice in controlling and preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) of public health volunteers in Non Soong community village, Udon Thani Province, and to study how to protected themselves from the 2019 corona virus infection. The population consisted of 198 public health volunteers in Non Soong community village by using the questionnaire on self-protection against COVID-19 which had an Index of item objective congruence 0.67-1.00 and a confidence value of Kuder-Richardson 0.70 KR, confidence value of Cronbach's alpha co-efficient of 0.71 for practice in controlling and preventing coronavirus Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation

The results of the study found that: The sample had a high level of knowledge about self-protection against the coronavirus 2019. The most important part was the knowledge of the pandemic outbreak, calculated as 90%. Knowledge of infection was calculated as 89.9%. Knowledge about infection prevention was calculated as 86.3% and general knowledge about disease was calculated as 86.3% which was the least

In terms of preventive behaviors caused by COVID-19, the most obvious level of behavior was avoiding close contact with people who had a fever and cough. The least obvious practice was to fill in the Thaichana application when travelled to various places. By protecting themselves from infection from the qualitative data found that Public health volunteers were responsible for surveillance, screening, and tracking of persons coming from provincial area and traveling to the community, including recommending people to follow the COVID-19 pandemic prevention procedures and performs DMHTTA (Distancing, Mask wearing, Hand washing, Temperature check, Testing, Application)