ผลของโปรแกรมเสริมสร้างความรอบรู้ด้านสุขภาพ เพื่อป้องกันการหกล้มต่อการปฏิบัติการป้องกัน การหกล้มซ้ำของผู้สูงอายุในชุมชน

Abstract

This quasi-experimental research study, with a two-group pretest-posttest design, aimed to study the effect of a program for enhancing health literacy for fall prevention on practices of recurrent fall prevention of elderly people in communities. The participants were 50 elderly people who had a history of falling more than once a year, recruited using purposive sampling, and assigned to an experimental group (n=25) or a control group (n=25). The study was conducted from April to June 2023. The research instruments consisted of 1) an 8-week program for enhancing health literacy for fall prevention on practices of recurrent fall prevention; 2) media and a guidebook on enhancing health literacy for fall prevention enhancing program on practices of recurrent fall prevention among the elderly in the community; and 3) an interview questionnaire on the practices of recurrent fall prevention among the elderly in the community, which was examined for content validity by six experts, demonstrating a content validity index of 0.97 and a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of confidence of 0.75. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, paired sample t-test, and independent t-test. The results revealed that the experimental group had higher mean scores for practices of recurrent fall prevention than before receiving the program for enhancing health literacy for fall prevention and higher scores than those of the control group, with statistical significance (p<0.001). The results from this research revealed that community nurse practitioners and healthcare teams can apply the health literacy enhancement program as a guideline for promoting health literacy and effective practices in preventing recurrence of falls among the elderly in communities.