Guidelines For the Development of Health Literate Schools in School Under the Bangkok Secondary Education Service Area Office

Abstract

The objectives of this mixed-methods research were to determine and examine the feasibility of the management of implementing the health literate school development guidelines in schools under the Bangkok Secondary Education Service Area Office. The research conceptual frameworks consisted of the concept for formulating guidelines for developing health literate schools and the concept for examining the feasibility of management. The qualitative research defined Sarawittaya School as a research site and used annual year reports of the health literate school project as key informants. The quantitative research purposively selected 81 administrators of schools under the Bangkok Secondary Education Service Area Office as research samples. The sample size was determined by the de Vaus’ s sampling table. Data were collected by a document analysis record form and a questionnaire and analyzed by content analysis, frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and independent t-test. The main findings were as follows; 1) The guidelines for the development of health literate schools consisted of 4 components, 12 indicators, 50 operational approaches and 115 activities. 2) The feasibility of implementing the operational approaches of the management of organizational structure, management, personnel and support to develop schools into health literate schools was at high to highest level.