DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH PROMOTION MODEL OF PEOPLE WITH VISUAL DISABILITY IN WESTERN THAILAND

Abstract

This research aimed to study situation, need and develop health promotion model of people with visual disability in Western Thailand,  Both quantitative and qualitative data was collected. The research implementation included 4 steps as follows. Step 1: This step was to study basic data by collecting data from the 2 target groups, i.e., the review of outpatients’ medical records at Metta Pracharak Hospital (Wat Rai Khing), specified as 154 new patients with visual disability and 30 regular patients with visual disability obtained by purposive sampling. The instrument was a questionnaire. The data was analyzed by statistics, i.e., frequency, percentage, mean, and SD. Step 2: This step was research instrument design and development by 5 experts obtained by purposive sampling. The instrument was a questionnaire. The statistics used included mean and SD. Step 3: This was the experimental step. The target included 30 patients with visual disability obtained by purposive sampling. The instrument was pretest-posttest and the opinion survey. The statistics used included percentage, mean, SD, and t-test. And Step 4: This step was model evaluation and improvement. The targets included 30 patients with visual disability obtained by purposive sampling. The instruments were the satisfaction survey and lessons learned guidelines. The statistics used included percentage, mean, SD, and content analysis. 

          The results revealed as follows:

1. For basic data of the implementation for health promotion of people with visual disability, the overall opinions of the targets were high. When considering each item, the highest one was the social and environment factors that supported health, followed by attitudes and self-empowerment. And the lowest one was self-health management.
2. For the development of health promotion model of people with visual disability, the model obtained was called “MIND Model,” consisting of M: Mind (Mind and feelings toward themselves and the society), I: Intervention (Activities or rehabilitation methods), N: Network (Disability operation network), and D: Disability (Certified disability or diseases). The overall experiment results of using health promotion model of people with visual disability in the treatment group were moderate. For the comparison between pretest and posttest, the means were significantly different (p <.05).