ปัจจัยที่มีความสัมพันธ์กับการตัดสินใจเข้ารวมกลุ่ม โครงการกองทุนยาประจำหมู่บ้าน ตำบลลาดกระทิง อำเภอสนามชัยเขต จังหวัดฉะเชิงเทรา / สุมนา นาคพงศ์ =Factors affecting decision making in participating in pharmaceutical fund project at Lad Krating village, Sanam Chaiket district, Chachoengsao province / Sumana Nakpongse
The primary purpose of this work is to investigate factors influencing people’s decision to become members of the pharmaceutical found project (PEP) at Ladkrating village, Sanamchaikhet district of changwat chachoengsao. The order of degree of influence among those factors were also examined. Except where otherwise indicated, the study confines itself to three main sets of independent variables namely ; socioeconomic interpersonal communication and other push and pull factors supporting the decision to join the PEP A randomly Sampling of 154 adults in ladkrating village were interviewed with structured questionnaires. The sample consisted of members and non-members of the PEP. Pearson’s Product Moment correlation and chi-square test were used to examine the relationship between those already mentioned sets of influencing factors and the decision to join PEP. Finally, Multiple Regression was used to rank order those influencing factors. Using chi-square test in the first part, it was found that set and health factors did not make any significant difference to become members of the pharmaceutical fund project. However, ages and leadership status did have significant relation to the decision made to join the project. Mostly, the members aged are between 31 and 46 years old The second part tested the hypothesis that the higher the degree of interpersonal communicating, the higher the probability that the respondents become member of the pharmaceutical fund Project. All measures of respondent’s degrees of interpersonal communicating were found to be significant related to becoming member of the project The third part looked at the relationship between other push and pull goal attainment, belief system, habit and custom opportunity to obtain services, the expectation, etc. and the membership of the pharmaceutical fund project. The significant findings were (1) The respondents who are members of the project possess higher level of expectation, goal attainment, opportunity to obtain services, lower level of traditional belief. (2) The majority of respondents cited time and transportation conveniences as prime reasons to join PEP membership. In the last part by using Multiple regression to rank order the importance of all variables, it was found that exposure to PEP information via small group meeting was most influencing factor. The order of influence of all measures were : (1) information exposure via small group meeting (2) Simplicity of message (3) Frequency of Communication (4) expectation and (5) ability.
