ความรู้ทางโภชนาการ ภาวะโภชนาการและภาวะสุขภาพของ ผู้สูงอายุในชุมชนบ้านต้นผึ้ง ตำบลสันทราย อำเภอสารภี จังหวัดเชียงใหม่

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to examine nutritional knowledge, nutritional status and health status of the older persons in Ban Tonphung community , Sansai sub-district, Saraphee district, Chiang Mai province. The sample was sixty older persons selected in the study area by purposely sampling. Instrument used in this study was a questionnaire whice consisted of 3 parts. The first part was general information data, weight and height for nutritional status assessment. The second past was nutritional knowledge test and the third part was health status information. The content validity of the questionnaire was approved by 3 experts. The data show that index of item-objective congruence (IOC) was getter than 0.5 for on items. Reliability was at 0.75 by using the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient test. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results of this study showed that: most sample (80.00%) had nutritional knowledge at a good level, most sample (61.70%) had normal nutritional status, the overall health status of the sample was at a good level (average=2.24) while physical health status, emotional health status, socio health status and spiritual health status were at good level. They average scores were 1.65, 2.23, 2.34 and 2.73 respectively.