Effectiveness of the health belief model program for knowledge and behavior of tuberculosis screening among Elderly in Wiang Sub-district, Chiang Saen District, Chiang Rai Province.

Abstract

This Quasi experimental research aimed to study the effectiveness of the health belief model program for knowledge and behavior of tuberculosis screening among elderly. Population was 60 elderlies who received tuberculosis screening divided into experimental and control group (30 cases per group). The intervention used in the study were the health belief model program for knowledge and behavior of tuberculosis screening among elderly composed 4 activities. Data was collected by questionnaire including characteristic, knowledge, attitude, health perception, enabling factor, reinforcing factor, during November–December, 2023 and analyzed by descriptive statistic, Chi-square test, and independent t-test. The result reported that factors was increasing after experiment with statistic significantly including; knowledge (P-value<0.001) attitude (P-value<0.001) perceived of risk (P-value<0.001) perceived of severity (P-value<0.001) perceived of benefit (P-value<0.001) perceived of barrier (P-value<0.001) enabling factor (P-value<0.001) reinforcing factor (P-value<0.001) and tuberculosis screening behavior (P-value<0.001)