Abstract:
This descriptive research aimed to study health communication competencies on medical cannabis use level and factors associated with health communication competencies of medical cannabis use among public health personnel working in sub-district health promoting hospital, public health development zone 2, Ubon Ratchathani Province. The samples consisted of 157 public health officers, public health scholars, and professional nurses, selected by simple random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The research tool was assessed by 3 experts. The Index of Item objective congruence was between 0.67 1.00 and Cronbachs Alpha coefficient of predisposing, Reinforcing, and enabling factors were between 0.75 0.94. The data was analyzed by frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation, maximum-minimum, chi-square test and Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient.
The research results revealed that the samples had health communication competencies on medical cannabis use, including knowledge about medical cannabis use, motivation for medical cannabis use communication, and medical cannabis use policy communication skill at medium level 52.90%, 96.20%, and 99.40% respectively. Public health personnels experience had significantly associated with motivation of medical cannabis use communication competency, (P-value <.05). Health communication training had significantly associated with knowledge about medical cannabis use competency, (P-value <.05). Sex, position, information perception, and health communication training had significantly associated with motivation of medical cannabis use communication and medical cannabis use policy communication skill, (P-value <.05).