Effectiveness of the participatory learning program of village health volunteers to promote the health of patients with high blood pressure in the Pak Chaem Subdistrict, Huai Yot District, Trang Province.

Abstract

     This research aims to study the results of the self-efficacy developement program in conjunction with participatory learning of health volunteers in health promotion of hypertensive patients. The population was 85 village health volunteers in Pak Cham Subdistrict. The sample consisted of 60, divided into an experimental group of 30 and a comparison group of 30, selected through purposive selection. The research time was five weeks. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test.

     The results reveal that after the experiment the experimental group had a higher average score of knowledge about hypertension, self-efficacy, and skills of health promotion of hypertensive patients than that of the control group with statistical significance at the 0.001 level. In addition, when comparing within the experimental group, the average score of knowledge about hypertention, elfefficacy, and skills of health promotion of hypertensive patients after the experiment was higher than that of before with statistical significance at the 0.001 level.