Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The incidence of coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) infection among school-age children is rising. Preventing the spread of COVID-19 in schools is very important. This predictive research aimed to study the factors which predict COVID-19 preventive behavior among intermediate school students Phetchaburi Province, Thailand. The study participants were 200 students studying at an extra-large primary school in Phetchaburi Province. Participants were selected by stratified random sampling. The research instruments consisted of a knowledge quiz (the difficulty value = .21-.84, and the power of discrimination = .20-.32), a health literacy questionnaire, and a COVID-19 prevention behavior questionnaire. The last two instruments’ Cronbach's alpha coefficients were .79 and .83, respectively. Descriptive statistics and multiple regressions were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that decision-making skills, media and information literacy skills, self-management skills, and grade point average could jointly predict COVID-19 prevention behaviors among the intermediate school students accounted for 38.3% of the variance with a statistical significance at the .05 level. (R2 = .383, p < .05) The most influential variable was decision-making skills (Beta = 0.375, p < .05), followed by media and information literacy skills (Beta = 0.250, p < .05). Health service units and schools should work together to develop health literacy in the areas of knowledge and understanding, decision-making skills, media and information literacy skills, and self-management skills among primary school students in order to effectively prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Language: Thai
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220162690