สภาพ ปัญหา การใช้เทคโนโลยีดิจิทัลของผู้สูงอายุ ในเขตอำเภอเมือง จังหวัดขอนแก่น

Abstract

The purpose of this research were 1) to study capability and problem of elderly digital technology usage in Meuang District, Khon Khan Province. 2) to compared to capability and problem of elderly digital technology usage, group by sex, age, education, occupation before retry or occupation before 60 year old and income. Random sampling by Simple random. The sampling group was 400 elderly who were member of elderly clubs in municipality area, Khon Khan Province. The research instrument is the questionnaire. The statistics are percentages, mean, standard deviation, t-test, f-test. The research finding found that: 1) the most respondents are female that age between 60 – 64 years old. Level of education was bachelor. The occupation before retire was merchant and current occupation is merchant too that earning between 10,000 – 19,999 Baht. An elderly was staying with their family. 2) the technology literacy: elderly has ability to use digital technology, especially smartphone. Application capability at the middle level. Elderly access to digital technology with smartphone at highest level, followed by access with social media and computer, access to digital technology with tablet at the lowest level. 3) the comparison between capability and problem about usage of digital technology found that: female has capability in usage of application more than male but female has problem about access and usage of digital technology than male at the 0.05 level of significance. In additionally a significant differences in level of education, occupation before retire, mean salary per month and family situation that has significant differences capability and problem of usage digital technology at the 0.05 level of significance.