Factors related to Thai traditional and alternative medicine services of public health services unit under the Ratchaburi provincial public health office

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to 1) study Thai traditional and alternative medicine services of public health service units under the Ratchaburi provincial public health office in real conditions and 2) study factors related to Thai traditional and alternative medicine services of public health service units under the Ratchaburi provincial public health office. This research is mixed method by qualitative approach with hermeneutic phenomenology. The key informants consisted of 15 Thai traditional medicines. The data collections used were in-depth interview and group discussion. The method described by Miles & Huberman was employed to analyze the data. The quantitative approach were used by correlation method. The sample of this study consisted of 163 Thai traditional medicines. The data were collected using a questionnaire of which reliability using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was .97. Statistics used for data analysis included percentage, median, standard deviation, ANOVA and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. According to the study, it is found that: Thai traditional and alternative medicine services of public health service units under the Ratchaburi provincial public health office consisted of 4 themes were 1) Standard services 2) Work support 3) Continuous development and 4) Proud to serve Thai traditional medicine. Overall average of Thai traditional and alternative medicine services was high level ( = 4.12, SD = 0.64). Overall average of service motivation was high level ( = 3.65, SD = 0.66). Overall average of leadership at work was high level ( = 4.18, SD = 0.54). And overall average of participation was high level (  = 3.93, SD = 0.63). The factors of service motivation, leadership at work and participation were statistically related to Thai traditional and alternative medicine services of public health service units under the Ratchaburi provincial public health office at the 0.01 level (r = .741, .726 and .745 respectively).