Behavior of Food Offering to Buddhist Monks of the Elderly in Sisaket Province

Abstract

          This research was the cross sectional descriptive study and aimed to study the behavior of food offering to Buddhist monk of the elderly in Sisaket province, Thailand. The Samples were 400 elderlies and were selected by using simple random and accidental samplings. The developed questionnaires were used. Data analysis was accomplished by using the percentage mean and standard deviation values. The result found that 78.1% of elderlies cooking by themselves for Buddhist monk and awareness of the nutrition fact (75.8%). For the special day such as the Buddhist holidays, birthday, and funeral day, elderlies love to give more food to Buddhist monk (74.0 %) and they have selected the good quality of food for Buddhist monk (75.5%). However, even the elderly in Sisaket province had appreciated to cooking for Buddhist monk. At present, the behaviors of the elderly were changed. They have selected the food depending on their convenience (75.5%) and the elderlies had a trend to buy food from the market and restaurant increasing (44.0%)