THE DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DENGUE FEVER BY COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN SUANKUAY SUBDISTRICT RATCHABURI PROVINCE

Abstract

The Objectives of this research article were 1) to identify the problems of prevention and control of Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF.), 2) to develop a model of prevent and control DHF, and 3) to study the effectiveness model of prevent and control DHF. This research and development study aimed for development model for prevention and control of dengue fever by community participation, according to the developmental phases: 1) for the study of problems to prevent and control DF and 2) for development a participatory community management model, the samples were divided 35 participants were selected by purposive sampling, who were public health officers of Tambon Health Promotion Hospital, health volunteers, representatives of families, community leaders, village committees and staff administrative organization were recruited to the study and 3) for the implementation phase, 110 houses who were household representative in Moo 8. All participants were selected by purposive sampling. The research tools comprised: 1) focus group 2.) House index (HI) and 3.) questionnaire of satisfaction participatory community management model. Content validity indexes were .80 - 1.00. Analyzed the data by content analysis frequency distribution. The results folds that: 1) people do not realize the importance of eliminating mosquito breeding grounds, there are more protection against mosquito bites than destroying, families with a history of dengue fever are vigilant to prevent and control the disease and operation are intermittent. 2) Model for prevent and control DHF by community participation include: community participation, public policy issuance, public relations, eradication of aedes aegypti larvae and monitoring and supervision and 3) after the use of the model, the house index was reduced from 80 to 7.27 and satisfaction evaluation was at the highest level, the mean was 4.48.