The Module Development for District Health Board’s personnel to Drive Prevention and Adolescent Pregnancy: A Case Study of Nakhon Si Thammarat

Abstract

          This study aimed to 1) build and develop a learning module, 2) to develop the process of building and developing a learning module, 3) to assess the effectiveness of a learning module, and 4) to assess the cooperation mechanism. This study was research and development. The target areas included 23 districts in Nakhon Si Thammarat; the researchers conducted a survey to ask the people’s opinions. Then the module was implemented by using PAOR in Noppitham District for three times. The complete module was assessed to find its effectiveness in six districts. The pre- and post- results were compared and the cooperation mechanism was determined. The experts of the related departments had focus group interviews in order to prevent and solve adolescent pregnancy in seven districts in Nakhon Si Thammarat. The CIPP Model was used to analyze the data.
         The results showed that the module consists of three aspects. The first aspect is policy, law, and project management to develop adolescence. The second aspect is adolescence and social change. The third aspect is advisory strategy, promotion for adolescence’s quality of life. When the module was implemented in Noppitham District with PAOR for three times, the results showed that the first overall score was 49.19, the second overall score was 73.94, and the third overall score was 83.55. Next, the module was secondly implemented with six districts. Its effectiveness showed that Module E1/ E2 = 80.95/80.78 and 80.44/81.33, respectively, which were in line with the criteria 80/80. The average scores of the pre- and post- tests were significantly different at .05 levels. These results showed that the first module was at a good level (x̅ = 4.05, S.D.= .652), the second module was at a good level ( x̅ = 4.04, S.D.= .553), and the third module was also at a good level ( x̅ = 4.05, S.D.= .615). The analysis of CIPP Model showed that the content was adequate and complete.