การเสริมสร้างองค์ความรู้ภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่นโดยใช้พืชสมุนไพรใบกระท่อมในการดูแลรักษาสุขภาพของตนเอง จังหวัดสระบุรี

บทคัดย่อ

The objectives of this research were 1) to increase the opportunities to exchange the knowledge of local wisdom by connecting networks to elderly leaders to transfer it to the elderly members, and 2) to enhance and increase the efficiency of learning about local wisdom about kratom leaves available in the local area for the community in the participatory style. The study was conducted in Saraburi Province. The research was conducted as qualitative research through 1) in-depth interviews, 2) group discussions, and 3) public forums by collecting comments and suggestions from a sample group of elderly members from the Elderly Council, volunteer staff of Brainbank, elderly members of public benefit organizations and relevant government officials from the Office of Social Development and Human Security, Saraburi Province, totaling 150 people.

              The results of the research revealed that 1) the factors regarding the encouragement of opportunities to exchange the knowledge of local wisdom by connecting networks to elderly leaders to transfer knowledge to elderly members were leadership, volunteerism, health, knowledge and time. For leadership, elderly people must set a clear example. For volunteerism, new members must hear explanations to have an understanding about the volunteers who come to join groups to help society without expecting anything in return. For health, most of the people who came to meetings or did activities together were healthy. For knowledge, the elderly’s educational qualifications were not higher than the college level, but they had their self-knowledge, especially about local wisdom, complying with the philosophy of sufficiency economy. For time, the elderly must have time to do activities with advance notice, and 2) with regard to strengthening and increasing the efficiency of learning about local wisdom about kratom leaves available in the local area for the community in the participatory style, it was found that the operating staff had knowledge only in the areas they were responsible for, but they had no clear understanding and lacked in integration in working together, readiness to carry out activities, knowledge and time. In addition, the budget was not enough to carry out activities and the policy for supporting to promote work for the elderly at the local level was not sufficient. As for solutions, operating staff should improve and develop their roles, duties and responsibilities in their own operations to be ready in terms of knowledge and clear understanding.

Keywords: local wisdom, kratom, elderly people