Effects of Capacity Building Curriculum of Intelligence Networks for Community Health Risk Factor Management on Competency-based Performance Development among Mohanamai
Abstract:
From the past until the present, public health network of Thailand has used Mohanamai
to call health personel who works in primary health care level. This quasi-experimental
research using one group (pre-posttest designed) aimed to study the effectiveness of
Capacity Building Curriculum of Intelligence Networks for Community Health Risk
Factor Management on competency-based performance development among Mohanamai.
The samples were 27 Mohanamai who received training of Capacity Building Curriculum
of Intelligence Networks for Community Health Risk Factor Management. The curriculum
incuded (1) five-training courses with 2 - 3 days per course, (2) budget support for project
implementation of community health risk factor management including tobacco, accident,
achohol drinking and chronic diseaseses, (3) empowerment by visiting at community
implementation with care and appreciation concepts, (4) share and learn activities for 2 days
in each region and (5) health media development and presentation for 2 days. Research
instrument was questionnaire developed by researchers. The data analysis included
descriptive statistics: percentage, mean and standard deviation. The inferential statisticts
included t-test (paird t-test). The results revealed that average posttest scores of the
Mohanamai competencies in analysis and evaluation, community health risk factor
management, collaboration both inside and outside institution, management (self-control,
vision, leadership and systems thinking, change agent, teamwork, planning, financial
planning and management and cultural completencies) and academic competency
(information technology, routine to research (R2R) of community health risk factor
management and knowledge management of community health risk factor management)
were higher than those average pre-test scores at p-value 0.001. Thus, Capacity Building
Curriculum of Intelligence Networks for Community Health Risk Factor Management had
effects to enhance Mohanamai performance competencies in prevention and management of
community health risk factor.