Effect of the Health Promotion Program among Health Behavior of Personnel at Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute.

Abstract

     This research is a quasi-experimental study with a one-group pretest-posttest design. The objective is to examine the effects of a health promotion program on the health behaviors of personnel at the Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute. The sample consists of 36 personnel from the institute. The experimental group received a health promotion program based on Pender's health promotion model, which includes 3 activities: 1) Workshop training, which includes 3 sub-activities are as follows: 1.1) Exchange ideas about health behavior awareness to create thoughts and emotions for behavior change in 4 steps: Step 1: Awareness of the benefits of practicing the behavior, Step 2: Awareness of the obstacles to practicing the behavior, Step 3: Awareness of one's own abilities, Step 4: Feelings towards the behavior. 1.2) Providing knowledge through lectures on nutrition, exercise, and emotional management. 1.3) Develop skills related to health behaviors in emotional management and exercise, and provide feedback demonstrations to the sample group. Activity 2: Create group influence using the Line Open Chat group. Activity 3: Group discussion over a period of 12 weeks. The tools used for data collection include the health promotion program questionnaire consists of 3 parts, including 1) general information 2) Health behavior assessment, which the researcher used the 3 domains (food, exercise, and emotions) health behavior assessment from Waraporn Lerdsil's questionnaire (2024), with a reliability value of 0.69. 3) Body composition data were analyzed using percentage statistics, mean, standard deviation, and paired t-test statistics. The study results found that 1) the average health behavior scores before and after the 12-week trial differed significantly at the .05 level, with the post-program behavior score ( = 17.28, SD = 4.44) being higher than the pre-program score (= 15.14, SD = 3.83). 2) The body mass index before and after the 12-week trial differed significantly at the .05 level, with the body mass index after participating in the program ( = 29.91, SD = 3.29) being lower than before participating in the program (= 30.44, SD = 3.35). 3) The level of abdominal fat before and after the 12-week trial differed significantly at the .05 level, with the abdominal fat level after participating in the program ( = 14.28, SD = 4.83) being lower than before participating in the program ( = 14.86, SD = 4.72). Based on the research findings, the health promotion program for the health behaviors of personnel should be implemented more broadly among other groups of personnel to foster better health-promoting behaviors.