Effectiveness of Community Participatory Housing Sanitation Management Program Ban Sabcharoen, Village No. 2, Huai Si Siat Subdistrict, Phu Luang District, Loei Province

Abstract

Study on the effectiveness of the community participation in residential sanitation management program Ban Sapcharoen, Huai Si Siat Subdistrict, Phu Luang District, Loei Province The quasi-experimental research design with a single sample repeated measures before and after the experiment aimed to compare the behavior of residential sanitation management of household members. The sample group was calculated using the G*Power ready-made program, resulting in 68 household representatives. Data were collected using a questionnaire between November 1, 2024 and March 2025. Descriptive and inferential statistics and Paired t-test were used.

                   The results of the research found that most of them were female, aged 41-60 years, had completed primary school, and were farmers. Residential sanitation management behavior in terms of general hygiene, household hygiene behavior, participation in health promotion and environmental sanitation, and household hygiene improved after joining the program. Residential sanitation management behavior in terms of general hygiene, household hygiene behavior, participation in health promotion and environmental sanitation, and household hygiene were significantly different from each other. Creating a vision and awareness, partner management, organizing an action plan for residential sanitation management, and the environment, and changing community and household behaviors, as well as monitoring and evaluation, affected residential sanitation management behaviors for the better. Therefore, there should be a government policy that integrates with the private sector network, communicates, creates awareness and good conscience together, and implements a participatory housing sanitation management program to solve the problems of enabling factors and risk factors for preventing infectious diseases and various nuisances, and establishes local regulations to drive the lacking activities that need to be improved and developed further.