Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers’s Citizenship Affecting Participation in the Older Persons Care of Thailand

Abstract

This research has three objectives. 1) To study the level of participation in older persons care of Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in Thailand. 2) To study the type of citizenship factors and characteristics of the Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers’s citizenship affecting participation in the older persons care. 3) To create discriminant function of the type of citizenship factors and characteristics of the Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers’s citizenship affecting classification of participation in the older persons care in Thailand. The sample size used in this study were 1,373 Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in Thailand who were identified using G * Power program and multi-stage random sampling. The instrument used to collect data was quantitative research by questionnaire at the reliability was 0.87. Statistics used in data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, canonical correlation analysis and discriminant analysis on all variables into the function. The results of this study revealed that the level of participation in the older persons care of the Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in Thailand was at a high level ( = 3.80, S.D. = 0.59). Then, factors affecting the classification of participation in older persons care of Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in Thailand were 12 factors. Finally, the discriminant function type of participation in older persons care of Carefor- the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in standardize was = 0.10x1 + 0.12x2 + 0.11x3 + 0.09x6 + 0.12x7 + 0.31x8 + 0.16x9 + 0.09x10 + 0.19x11 + 0.17x12 + 0.35x13 + 0.14x14.