Effectiveness of Pesticide Using Protection Program Among Rice Farmer in Bandannakam Sub-District Health Promotion Hospital Mueang District, Uttaradit Province

Abstract

Abstract

This Quasi experimental research was to study one group pretest-posttest design which aimed to Effectiveness of pesticide using protection Program among rice farmer in bandannakam sub-district health promotion hospital mueang district uttaradit province. Population in this study consisted of 30 rice farmer. This program was developed from all significantly factors from research study in phrase 1 , Fators related to pesticide using protection behaviors among rice farmer with statistic significantly at 0.05 level including; communication skill (P-value<0.001), self-management skill (P-value<0.001), decision skill (P-value<0.040), media literacy skill (P-value<0.016) respectively. The program was developed activity in by applying health literacy composed of 5 activities including, assessment of cognitive skills ,assessment of self-management skills, assessment of communication skills, assessment of decision skills, assessment of media Literacy skills, assessment of pesticide using protection behaviors and assessment with in lasted 4 months. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire to test research hypothesis by Independent t-test. The result showed that after the experimentation, the factors significant increased mean score of health literacy (P-Value<0.001), pesticide using protection behaviors (P-Value<0.001) respectively.