The Effects of Environmental Health Literacy Enhancement Program for Promoting Preventive Behavior from PM2.5 among Grade 6 Students at A Private School in Samutprakarn Province
Keywords:
Preventive behavior from pm2.5, environmental health literacy, grade 6 studentsAbstract
This quasi-experimental study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an environmental health literacy enhancement program in promoting preventive behaviors against PM2.5 dust among 50 sixth-grade elementary school students. The participants were randomly assigned to an experimental group (n = 25) and a control group (n = 25) based on inclusion criteria. The research instruments consisted of an environmental health literacy enhancement program and a scale measuring preventive behaviors against PM2.5 dust. Data were analyzed using two-way repeated measures ANOVA. The study's results revealed that after the experiment, students who received the program to enhance environmental health literacy demonstrated higher scores on behaviors to protect themselves from PM2.5 dust compared to students who did not receive the program, with statistical significance (p < .05). During the 6-week follow-up period, students in the experimental group who received the program exhibited higher scores on their behavior to protect themselves from PM2.5 dust than after the experimental period, with statistical significance (p < .05). Moreover, the program aided students in changing their behavior and developing the durability of their behavior to protect themselves from PM2.5 dust. The research results demonstrate that the program to enhance knowledge about environmental health is effective in encouraging students to adopt more behaviors to protect themselves from PM2.5 dust
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