The Study of Health Care Behavior and Effectiveness of Promoting the Health Behaviors of Staffs of Faculty of Education in Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University

Abstract

The purposes of this quasi-experimental (One group pretest-posttest design) study were 1) to study health care behaviors, 2) to study the health care behaviors (3 self) and health indicators consisting of the body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, fasting blood sugar after the promoting the health behaviors program and health indicator consisting of the lipid profiles after the promoting the health behaviors program, and 3) to study the satisfaction with promoting the health behaviors. The subjects were divided into 2 groups: the first group of health care behaviors study consisted of 130 staffs and the second group consisted of 22 staffs and received the promoting the health behaviors. This study were carried out during July 2015-June 2016. The research instruments were 1) the scale measuring health care behaviors, 2) Diabetes Risk score, 3) General Health Questionnaire: GHQ-28, 4) the scale measuring health care behaviors (3-Self), and 5) the scale measuring the satisfaction of promoting the health behaviors and the promoting the health behaviors program. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, dependent t-test and one-way ANOVA.