The study of Occupational Health Literacy and Safety Behaviors Among Waste Collectors in Chiangrai Province
Keywords:
Health Literacy, Occupational Health, Behavior, Safety, Waste collectorsAbstract
This research is a cross-sectional descriptive study. The purpose of this research aimed to study personal data, occupational health literacy and safety behaviors among waste collectors and the relationship between personal data, occupational health literacy and safety behaviors among waste collectors in Chiang Rai Province. Two hundred and forty-one waste collectors were selected by multi-stage random sampling method. The data were collected using questionnaire divide into three parts consist of personal data, occupational health literacy and safety behaviors. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics; frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi- square test, and Fisher's exact test.
The results showed that most of the waste collectors (55.60%) had fair level in occupational health literacy and most of them (83.40%) had good level for occupational safety behavior. Moreover, personal factors in occupational injury related with occupational safety behavior (p-value < 0.05). Furthermore, the results revealed that the positive correlation between reading and understanding, communication skills, making decisions and applying, media literacy, and self- health management, were statistically significant with occupational safety behavior (p < 0.001). In addition, occupational health literacy should be promote for waste collectors and should also organized occupational health promotion programs as a guideline for improving the level of occupational safety behavior among waste collectors.
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