Statistical Analysis of Attitude and Health Behavior of Science and Technology Student, Chiang Mai University

Abstract

     The study of attitude and health behavior of Science and Technology Students, Chiang Mai University. 1,404 undergraduate students were selected from 2,670 of them by stratified random sampling. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, category principal component analysis, canonical correlation, nonparametric, analysis of variance and category regression analysis. The results of analysis by category principal component, we found that the factors which affect the attitude and health behavior were classified into two groups: Sex risk behavior and the faculty of students are the important factors in the first group. The academic year which they firstly come to be a student, the health level of students and the expenditure are the important factors in the second group. At the 0.05 level of significance, there are difference in the basic data ,attitude and the health level of students which are classified by faculty of students. The basic data, attitude and the health level are correlated at 0.832 and the risk behavior student group is affected from the very beginning which they first come to be a student, and so are income and expenditure. Using analysis of variance at 0.05 level of significance, there are differences between health risk behavior of each faculty in Science and Technology group. Another result, using category regression, is that drinking alcohol is mostly affected to the risk behavior of smoking, sexual relationship in the past 6 months and motorcycle riding.