Abstract:
Drowning in school-age children are a major public health in Thailand. They must have the drowning preventive behaviors appropriately. The purposes of this correlational research were to study the drowning behaviors and to examine the correlation between knowledge, perceived susceptibility, social support, and physical environment with drowning preventive behaviors among school-age children, Northeastern region. Two hundred and thirteen school children aged 6-10 years were recruited by the multistage random sampling technique in the primary public schools, Office of the Basic Commission, Ministry of Education. A set of the questionnaires composed of demographic data, drowning preventive behaviors, knowledge, perceived susceptibility, social support, and physical environment. All questionnaires were tested for content validities by five experts, and the reliabilities were 1.00, .70, .88, .77, .76, and .78, respectively. Descriptive statistics and Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient were used to analyze data. The results revealed that : 1.The mean score of drowning preventive behaviors among school-age children, Northeastern region was at a high level ([Mean] = 34.67, SD = 3.09). 2.Knowledge, perceived susceptibility, social support, and physical environment were positively related to drowning preventive behaviors among school-age children, Northeastern region (r = .22, .23, .40, and .18, respectively).