SELF-CARE BEHAVIORS TO PREVENT COVID-19 INFECTION AMONG FOOD DELIVERY RIDERS IN THAILAND
Issued Date
2022-01-01
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ISSN
16750306
eISSN
25903829
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85148628978
Journal Title
Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine
Volume
22
Issue
3
Start Page
130
End Page
136
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Bibliographic Citation
Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine Vol.22 No.3 (2022) , 130-136
Suggested Citation
Sarnkhaowkhom C. SELF-CARE BEHAVIORS TO PREVENT COVID-19 INFECTION AMONG FOOD DELIVERY RIDERS IN THAILAND. Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine Vol.22 No.3 (2022) , 130-136. 136. doi:10.37268/MJPHM/VOL.22/NO.3/ART.1759 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/86219
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SELF-CARE BEHAVIORS TO PREVENT COVID-19 INFECTION AMONG FOOD DELIVERY RIDERS IN THAILAND
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic plays a key role in people's behavior worldwide, especially, during the measures of locking down and social distancing, the demand for food delivery increased worldwide. To prevent the transmission of COVID-19, the food delivery riders require to have good self-care behaviors during working. Therefore, this research aims to assess the self-care behaviors to prevent COVID-19 among food delivery riders and determine the associations of demographic data of food delivery riders and self-care behaviors to prevent COVID-19. This research employed online cross-sectional research involving 440 food delivery riders in Bangkok from October to November 2020. The findings showed that most food delivery riders had a high level of self-care behaviors to prevent COVID-19 infection (M= 4.04, SD= 0.63). The factor associated with the self-care behaviors to prevent COVID-19 infection was educational level (p< 0.05). This research provides an understanding of the level and factors associated with self-care behaviors to prevent COVID-19 infection among food delivery riders. The healthcare providers, public health sectors, and food delivery companies are recommended to promote self-care behaviors among food delivery riders and necessary to have the effective health communication, health education or intervention to all food delivery riders by concerning about their educational background.