Program for the prevention of knee osteoarthritis from pray sitting among elderly by community participation Song Plueai Subdistrict, Namon District Kalasin Province
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to 1) study the behavior of pray sitting related to risk of knee osteoarthritis in elderly. 2) develop a program to prevent knee osteoarthritis from pray sitting in elderly by community participation. 3) study the effectiveness of the knee osteoarthritis prevention program from the elderly pray sitting by community participation. This research was 3 phase, phase 1 was study behavior of pray sitting related to risk of knee osteoarthritis in elderly that was survey study of 240 elderly, phase 2 was develop a program to prevent knee osteoarthritis by community Leaders, liaison, village health volunteer and monk, phase 3 was implementation program for prevention knee osteoarthritis in 30 elderly. The data was analyzed by used frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and content analysis.
The result found that 1) behavior of pray sitting related to risk of knee osteoarthritis were high level. 2) Program prevent of knee osteoarthritis consists of 4 steps include screening, advice knowledge, change pray sitting behavior and exercise. 3) The effectiveness of program, participants had average score of knowledge about knee osteoarthritis after used program higher than before used program with significantly at the .005 level. Participants had average score of behavior and knee pain after used program higher than before used program with significantly at the .005 level. The satisfaction of the participants used program found their satisfied overall was a highest level