| The purpose of this research is to study the “working motivation of village health care providing volunteers (VHCV) and health care performance in Nachaluay, Ubon Ratchatani through performance evaluation through the point of view of the village health care volunteers who did their self-evaluation and through the point of view of the staff who evaluated village health care volunteers. The subjects were 332 village health care volunteers. The research tool was a questionnaire created by the researcher and was tested with the reliability of 0.78. The data were collected by having the questionnaire filled in by the health care volunteers themselves and then having them returned for information analysis by computer. The statistics used in analyzing demographic factors were frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, inferential statistics – T-statistics (t-test), F-statistics (one-way ANOWA), and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient. The results are summed as follows.
Most of the village health care volunteers were women (64.16%). The average age was 38.11. Most had primary education (74.39%). 93.98% were married. 89.76% were farmers. The majority earned the monthly income of less than 5,000 bahts (87.35%). On average the subjects had been health care volunteers for 5.76 years. On average they were responsible for 10.55 households. The majority of the subjects had no other duties to community. 49.70% had the average motivation in terms of motivation factors of a medium level ( = 2.55). There were no differences in the motivation level average in terms of motivation factors (p>.05) due to the factors of sex, age, education level, marital status, occupation, monthly income, number of households under responsibility, other duties to the community, and training experience, except the volunteering time span. Village health care volunteers with between 1-5 (p=.018) and more than 11 years (p=.019) work experience had higher motivation in terms of motivation factors than that of the group with between 6-10 years work experience. The motivation level in terms of maintenance factors on average was at the medium level ( =2.63). There were no differences in motivation average in terms of maintenance factors (p>.05) due to the factors of sex, education level, marital status, occupation, monthly income, the time span of being village health care volunteer, number of households under responsibility, other duties to community, except for the factor of sex. Female village health care volunteers had a higher level of motivation in terms of maintenance factors than that of male village health care volunteers (p=.04). Moreover, village health care volunteers who had been through at least 5 orientations had a higher level of motivation in terms of maintenance factors than that of the group with less than 1-2 times of orientation (p=.01) and the group without orientation (p=.01). The overall performance on average was at the medium level ( =3.26). Through the point of view of the village health care volunteers who did self-evaluation there were no differences (p>.05) in performance due to the factors of sex, age, marital status, education, occupation, monthly income, other duties to community, number of households under responsibility, orientation experience, and volunteering time span. Through the point of view of the staff who did evaluation on village health care volunteers, on average the performance was at the high level ( =3.65). Through the point of view of the staff who did evaluation on village health care volunteers there were no differences due to the factors of age, marital status, occupation, monthly income, volunteering time span, and orientation experience, except for the factor of sex. Female village health care volunteers performed better than male village health care volunteers did (p=.03). Village health care volunteers with secondary education performed better than village health care volunteers with primary school education (p=.003). Village health care volunteers responsible for 10-12 households performed better than village health care volunteers responsible for 8-9 households (p=.007). |