พฤติกรรมสุขภาพและความรอบรู้ด้านสุขภาพของประชากรวัยทำงานตอนปลาย ในจังหวัดนครปฐม

Abstract

This descriptive research aims to study personal characteristics health literacy that effect on desirable health behaviors of the late working age population in Nakhon Pathom province, totaling 336 people by multi-stage sampling. The research tool was an online questionnaire on health behavior, awareness and environmental factors affecting working age health in 2022 developed by the Bureau of Dental Public Health and Working Age Cluster, Department of Health, which are in the application H4U by MOPH. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square stats and the Pearson correlation coefficient

            Results : The study found that most of the sample were female, representing 60.47 %, with an average age of 52.03 years old. Most of them were general contractors, representing 41.43 %, followed by farmers, representing 23.34 %, and trading occupations, representing 14.57 %. In terms of congenital disease, it was found that most of them had congenital disease, which was hypertension representing 17.97 %, followed by diabetes, representing 3.40% and hyperlipidemia, representing  2.57 %. The body mass index (BMI) was normal, representing 37.08 %, followed by obesity, representing 27.52 %. Regarding the waist circumference, it was found males had normal, representing 31.52 % and females have a waist mormal, representing 31.22 %. They have vigorous movement behavior by moving the body until it is more tired than usual in total for 1 week, exerting movement behaviors more than or equal to 150 minutes per week, representing 58.74 %. Summary of healthy behavior assessment results, good shapely, having all 4 desirable health behaviors, and having health literacy, representing 0.8 percent. In conclusion, overall health literacy had a low positive correlation with the level of desirable health behaviors of the working population with statistical significance (r = 0.335,   P = 0.000)