Ye Win Aung. KNOWLEDGE ATTITUDE BARRIERS AND PREVENTIVE BEHAVIORS OF TUBERCULOSIS AMONG MYANMAR MIGRANTS IN HUA FAI VILLAGE MAE SOT DISTRICT TAK PROVINCE THAILAND. Master's Degree(Public Health). Chulalongkorn University. Office of Academic Resources. : Chulalongkorn University, 2013.
KNOWLEDGE ATTITUDE BARRIERS AND PREVENTIVE BEHAVIORS OF TUBERCULOSIS AMONG MYANMAR MIGRANTS IN HUA FAI VILLAGE MAE SOT DISTRICT TAK PROVINCE THAILAND
Abstract:
The study was conducted between middle of March to first week of April 2014, to describe independent variables (socio-demographic characteristics, information, knowledge, attitude and barriers towards prevention of TB), and to assess any association of these independent variables with the dependent variables (preventive behaviors). Data was collected using interviewer administrated questionnaire from total 392 participants. The 65.8% of respondents were females, 66.3% were married, 54.8% were Burmese, 36.0% were construction workers, 93.1% were at below the average International Wealth Index (IWI), 45.2% were living with 0-3 people, about 43.1% were living in Thailand for 5 years or less. 65% of respondents had low level of knowledge, 55.9% had low level of attitude, 41.3% had high level of barriers and 51.8% had low preventive behavior levels. Pearsons̀ Chi-square test was used to find out the associations and revealed that: marital status (p=0.008), level of education (p=0.002), current occupation (p