The Effects of Consuming Dietary Supplementary Products, in Lampang City Municipality Communities

Abstract

Cause of the detected evaluation found that dietary supplements products are not FDA certified, has a lot more difficult to determine due to the lack of personnel and monitoring of hazards from consumption. This PAR and mixed method aims to study problems related to dietary supplement products to provide proper guidance to the community in promoting awareness on dietary supplement products consumption. The sample was 1,000 people, living in the area of Lampang city municipality communities. The questionnaire was used which content validity (CVI) was 0.825 and the confidence coefficient alpha equal to 0.88. The research findings showed that their knowledge on the products was more than 90 percent correct (82.6%). The attitude and confidence in the product values has been thoroughly controlled and protected by law. The consumption recognized behavior was from advertising (95.9%), television was the highest (17.9%), and then the sample were selected purposively of 50 people targeted by the respondents perceived the consumer occur to in depth interview. The questions included the results and why the need for the consumer. The study found that most consumers had a positive attitude towards the product and did not harm or affected the family economy. It was concluded that the dietary supplement products consumption because: 1) Getting from significant others,         2) Trusting of product for price, place and manufactory date, 3) Known property public advertising, 4) They disseminate and recommend products to others, 5) Show its gratitude to others, 6) Consume without impact to revenues, 7) Continuing consume with no effect direct loss or complications. These findings seemed to be that consumption of dietary supplements products became necessary to the family and may be used to increase production to consumption, and difficult to control.