Development of information literacy model on health promotion for elderly in thai society

Abstract

The purposes of this study were: 1) to study the need assessment and the concept of Information Literacy development on Health Promotion for Elderly in Thai Society, 2) to develop the pilot of Information Literacy Model on Health Promotion for Elderly in Thai Society, and 3 ) to study factors and conditions of using the Information Literacy Model on Health Promotion for Elderly in Thai Society. The subjects of this experiment were 60 persons of the elderly. This study based on the Experimental Research One Group Pre-test and Post-test design. The research findings were as follows: 1. the Information Literacy Model on Health Promotion for Elderly in Thai Society from Need Assessment consisted 8 steps were (1) the basic concepts, (2) purposes of the target group, (3) situation, (4) output and value, (5) lesson plan, (6) action plan, (7) resources setting, and (8) evaluation. 2) The results of the implementation of using the pilot of Information Literacy Model on Health Promotion of the experimental group had the scores of the knowledge, attitude, and the behavioral expression in post-test were higher than the scores of pre-tests with statistically significant at level of .05. 3) The factors of using a model related to the continuing of the policy of enhancing the elderly persons.