The effectiveness of health promotion communicator monk curriculum Health promotion center region 10

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) To study and develop the effectiveness of monk development curriculum as health promotion communicators; 2) To evaluate the trial of the curriculum by comparing pre and post training of monks as the health promotion communicators in being a lecturer and mentor of the health promotion volunteers in the temples; 3) To assess the satisfaction and suggestion on monk development curriculum as health promotion communicators. The research sample consisted of 27 monks that participated in the project as lecturers. The sample was acquired through purposive sampling. The research instruments included: knowledge test, performance assessment formats in pre and post training, satisfaction assessment formats towards the curriculum. The statistics used for data analysis were mean, percentage and t-test. The results of the study revealed as the followings: 1) Development of training curriculum of health promotion communicators corresponded with the problem situation in the Health Region 10. The curriculum components included principles, purposes of the curriculum, scope of subject matter, duration of training, priority of experience learning activities. The training course included 4 plans of learning activities i.e. lecturing, demonstrating, group brainstorming and practice on lecturing. The results from an expert assessment were found that the curriculum was consistent and appropriate (IOC) at 0.90. 2) The trial of a training course found that the monks were interested and attentively participated in training. The average knowledge and performance as health promotion communicators in post training were higher than the pre training with statistical significance at the level of .00 3) For the opinion on satisfaction of the trainees in the curriculum of monk development as health promotion communicators, the participants had their opinion on satisfaction at the high level with the average satisfaction at 3.63