Development of Health Literate Organizational Model about Overweight of Undergraduate Students in Upper Northern RAJABHAT Universities

Abstract

    This research were conducted to study organizational costs and needs for the overweight management, development, implementation and evaluation of Health Literate Organizational Model about Overweight of Undergraduate Students in Upper Northern Rajabhat Universities. The research were divided into three phases. First phase: Data organizational costs were collected by in-depth interview with executives, network partners and parents. University administration and management data were collected by questionnaires from 262 subjects. Needs of overweight management and health behavior data of undergraduate students were collected by questionnaires from 343 subjects. Quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis. Second phase: Development of Health Literate Organizational Model about Overweight. Third phase: Implementation and Evaluation of Health Literate Organizational Model about Overweight, sample group of 30 personnel and 30 undergraduate students were selected. Data were analyzed by comparing knowledge and understanding the health literate organization about overweight and comparing weight of undergraduate students by using Repeated measures ANOVA. The findings revealed that (1) The university had the costs of Health Literate Organizational development as follows: 1.1) Leadership costs and organizational structure: the executives had open minded and vision of university development for health literate organizational model, having flexible organizational structure, easy to change at a great level. 1.2) Management costs: communication and communication channels were at good level. 1.3) Personnel costs: personnel strived to have self-development, having the ability to perform achievement tasks and ready for change at very good level. 1.4) Individual costs: undergraduate students had the needs for overweight management at high level, there were health behavior at moderate level; (2) The developed model consisted of three patterns as follows: 2.1) Personnel Activities Pattern, 2.2) Policy Activities Pattern, 2.3) Undergraduate students Activities Pattern; (3) After implementing the model, Results found that: 3.1) Personnel and undergraduate students had increased knowledge of Health Literate Organizational Model about overweight with statistically significant at .05. 3.2) Undergraduate students had lost weights with statistically significant at .05. 3.3) Personnel and undergraduate students were satisfied with the Health Literate Organizational Model about overweight at moderate level. The results of this study can apply for development of Health Literate Organizational Model in universities. Universities provide and support personnel and undergraduate students to become good quality of human resources in order to help the local area and country development.