Casual Factors of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Protecting Behaviors of People Living at the Frontier of Thailand and Republic of the Union of Myanmar : Qualitative Research

Abstract

This research was a qualitative research to understand the protecting behaviors for DHF, casual factors of the protecting behaviors for DHF, and to give the suggestion an appropriate way to protect the DHF at the frontier. The data was collected from 4 groups of people including Thai people, outsider, supporting people group 1 (the community leader and public health volunteer), and supporting people group 2 (local public health officers or local administration officers), from Kanchanaburi province. The method used to collect the data was the focus group discussion and data analysis using content analysis.

The protecting behaviors for DHF of people, the results showed, were not corresponded with the objective of the Ministry of Public Health because the main factors of having DHF protecting behaviors were considered as multi factors, including 1) high perceived barrier about protecting DHF in groups of people 2) low self-efficacy to protect themselves from DHF 3) people lacked of skills applying the protecting methods themselves when living in the risk environment 4) lacking of perpetually social standard and 5) Need for getting support for institutes and government officers.

It could be concluded that the casual factors of having gangue DHF behaviors consisted of at least 5 factors demonstrating the interrupted and unusual protecting behaviors for DHF. Therefore, this research suggested that a public health rally or behavior-modified program to protect DHF of people, who was recognizing the 5 causal factors, living at the frontier, should be provided to harvest appropriate behaviors towards people and to reduce the risk to get DHF-related sick.