Health Literacy Effecting to Preventing and Controlling Denque Hemorrhagic Fever Among Village Health Volunteer, Pattani Province.

Abstract

                   This  descriptive  research  study aimed to study  health  literacy effecting to  preventing and controlling denque  hemorrhagic fever among village  health  volunteer,  Pattani Province.  Population  was  6,841  village health  volunteer  in  Pattani  Province,   and  the  sample  size  calculating used   Daniel   formula  for  215  cases,  and  systematic  random  sampling was determining.  Data collected by questionnaires  composed  of;  parts 1 characteristic,  part 2  health  literacy,  part 3  preventing  and  controlling denque  hemorrhagic  fever.   In  addition  to,  validity  was  checked  by  3 experts  and  try  out   testing  reliability  by  Cronbach’s  coefficient  alpha about  0.87,   an   association   analysis   used   Pearson   product   moment correlation  coefficient.  The result  showed that the factor was  associated with preventing and controlling  denque  hemorrhagic fever with statistic significant including; access skill (r=0.310,  P-value<0.001) communication skill (r=0.201,  P-value=0.003)  media literacy skill (r=0.386,  P-value<0.001) decision  skill  (r=0.349,   P-value <0.001)  self-management  skill   (r=0.480, P-value<0.001), cognitive skill was not association (r=0.117, P-value=0.086), respectively.