Abstract:
The epidemic situation of the Coronavirus-2019 disease (COVID-19) has resulted in the number of infections and the mortality has increased in Thailand. The key factors in disease control are prevention and the control of village public-health volunteers (VHV), in duties, during the COVID-19 situation. The aim of this study was to study the infection prevention behaviors and the relationship between the leading (predisposing), facilitating (enabling), and supplementaring (reinforcing) factors and the preventive behaviors from the Coronavirus-2019. The population is 107 village public-health volunteers living in Ratchaburi Municipality, Ratchaburi province. The data were collected by the self-answering questionnaire applied from the PRECEDE conceptual framework. The data analysis relied on descriptive and inferential statistics, setting a statistical significance of less than 0.05. The study results show that the village public-health volunteers have a good level of preventive behavior against the COVID-19 (62.6%) and the factors related to the preventive behavior against the Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) are training on the COVID-19 prevention, access to the COVID-19 protective equipment , and information about the COVID-19 infection is at a statistically significant level of (p<0.05). IMPLICATION OF THE THEMATIC PAPER: The agencies that supervise the works of the village public-health volunteers should apply the research results to be as the guideline in planning policies and the promoting the duties of the VHV in surveillance, thus controlling and preventing the spread of the COVID-19 in each area appropriately.