Health Information Management for the Elderly in Surat Thani Province
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This research aimed to study the health information literacy behavior, the health information channel of homebound elderly and the guideline of health information management of the elderly affairs officials. It is a mixed method between quantitative research and qualitative research. The quantitative research used questionnaires and an assessment form for data collection. The sample were selected by using purposive sampling 10% of Homebound Elderly in each of 19 districts in Surat Thani Province, were selected, making a total of 477 people. The qualitative research used the collected data together with the National Elderly Plan, Issue 2 (2002-2021). The other sample group consisted of 40 people selected from the provincial public health office, hospital, 19 district public health offices and 19 people selected from 19 sub-district health promoting hospitals.
According to the results, it was found that the most respondents were female, aged 60-69 years, with underlying disease, having primary education and less than 5,000 baht/month for income. They did not work and had marital status. They researched and accessed the health information 1-2 times a month about the right to treatment during 06.01-12.00 hrs. Their attitude factors supporting behavior were a hygienic kitchen, supportive family reducing the process of seeing a doctor and effective health care. According to the study of self-perceived health status, it was found that a warm family consisted of good mentality and life satisfaction. The perception channels consisted of relying on television, official /village health volunteers, print media and online media including LINE application. Regarding the information management guidelines, most of the respondents were female with bachelor’s degree working as a Public Health Technical Officer, age over 16 years used the measure of self-promotion of health and prevention of illness. Regarding the information media support, it was found that the LINE application, smartphone, poster and /village health volunteers were the most mentioned. The overall appropriateness of the health information management approach and health information media support was at a high level.
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