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“บทบาทสตรีถิ่นอาสาสมัครสาธารณสุขประจําหมูบานในการเสริมสรางการมีสวนรวมของชุมชน
เพื่อปองกันและควบคุมการแพรระบาดของโรคติดเชื้อไวรัสโคโรนาสายพันธุใหม 2019 ในจังหวัดเชียงใหม”

Prin Khwanriang and others. (2021). Local Women’s Roles as Village Health

Volunteer (VHV) for Enhancing Community Participation for

Prevention and Control of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Outbreak in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Bangkok: King Prajadhipok's

Institute.

ABSTRACT

The research aims to investigate the health information behavior and

the role of local women village health volunteers (VHVs) in educating
communities, include increasing community participation and guidance for

enhancing the participation of local women VHVs for prevention,

surveillance and control of the COVID-19 outbreak in Chiang Mai Province.
This research employed a mixed-method for the investigation, and the

research instruments compound with questionnaires, semi-structured in-

depth interviews are utilized extensively as interviewing format, possibly
with an individual or sometimes even with a group. The sample groups for

the quantitative study were 250 Local women VHVs, and the key informants

for in-depth interviews were 40 local women VHVs. All of them habituated
in four subdistricts: Suthep, Mae Hia, Fa Ham, and Tha Sala Subdistrict,

located at Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai Province. The

questionnaires were used for quantitative data collection and later taken for
the statistic description: frequency, percentage, mean, and standard

deviation.

The findings are local women VHVs demand health information for

dealing with the spread of COVID-19; they are seeking health information

from reliable sources; and health information they obtained was applicable
for solving the problems, including health information and knowledge

selection from clearly identified sources. In addition, the problems
encountered in the field works were low, and it clearly shows that most local

women VHVs possess technological devices for seeking health information,

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