Knowledge, Attitude, and Liver Fluke Prevention Behavior of the People in Lamklong Subdistrict, Muang Kalasin Province.
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The descriptive research were aimed 1) to study knowledge, attitude, and behavior for liver fluke disease
prevention of the people in Thambon Lamklong, Amphoe Muang, Kalasin province. 2) to study relationship
among knowledge, attitude, and behavior for liver fluke disease prevention. The 175 samples of 317
population were selected by systemic random for once person per household. The data were collected by
questionnaires during 2016, January to May and were analyzed by descriptive statistics; frequency,
percentage, mean, standard deviation, and by inferential statistic with Spearman coefficient.
The results were revealed that the samples were; the middle knowledge level for the liver fluke disease
prevention, the good attitude level, and the middle prevention behavior. The knowledge were related to the
attitude for the liver fluke disease prevention by the positive side in the middle level (rs=0.387)with the
statistical significant at 0.01 level. The suggestions of this research to the government departments in
community such as community public health, local administration should be promoted the enhancing
knowledgefor the liver fluke disease prevention and provided the activities or knowledge sharing area to
adjust the right attitude that affects to the changing health behaviors in the long term.
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