Effects of Capacity Building Curriculum of Intelligence Networks for Community Health Risk Factor Management on Competency-based Performance Development among Mohanamai

Abstract

From the past until the present, public health network of Thailand has used “Mohanamai” to call health personel who works in primary health care level. This quasi-experimental research using one group (pre-posttest designed) aimed to study the effectiveness of Capacity Building Curriculum of Intelligence Networks for Community Health Risk Factor Management on competency-based performance development among Mohanamai. The samples were 27 Mohanamai who received training of Capacity Building Curriculum of Intelligence Networks for Community Health Risk Factor Management. The curriculum incuded (1) five-training courses with 2 - 3 days per course, (2) budget support for project implementation of community health risk factor management including tobacco, accident, achohol drinking and chronic diseaseses, (3) empowerment by visiting at community implementation with care and appreciation concepts, (4) share and learn activities for 2 days in each region and (5) health media development and presentation for 2 days. Research instrument was questionnaire developed by researchers. The data analysis included descriptive statistics: percentage, mean and standard deviation. The inferential statisticts included t-test (paird t-test). The results revealed that average posttest scores of the Mohanamai competencies in analysis and evaluation, community health risk factor management, collaboration both inside and outside institution, management (self-control, vision, leadership and systems thinking, change agent, teamwork, planning, financial planning and management and cultural completencies) and academic competency (information technology, routine to research (R2R) of community health risk factor management and knowledge management of community health risk factor management) were higher than those average pre-test scores at p-value 0.001. Thus, Capacity Building Curriculum of Intelligence Networks for Community Health Risk Factor Management had eff ects to enhance Mohanamai performance competencies in prevention and management of community health risk factor.