Faculty of public health, Mahasarakham University, Thailand.
Mahachanachai Hospital, Yasothon, Thailand.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 Jun 29;295:193-196. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220695.
Thai Buddhist monks' lifestyle has made them likely to get non-communicable diseases. Therefore, the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand has conducted a health behavior-changing program for non-communicable diseases prevention among Thai Buddhist monks. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the health behavior-changing Program for Non- communicable diseases prevention among 4,786 Thai Buddhist monks who were risk group. They were on the program for 6 months. from January 1st, 2021 to June 30th, 2021. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the characteristics of the subjects and Paired t-test was used to compare the mean difference. The results showed that the health behavior-changing program can reduce Fasting Blood Sugar, Body Mass Index, Risk score, Hypertension, and Smoking scores. Therefore, this program should be used for reducing risk factors of non-communicable diseases among Thai monks in the Upper Northeast region of Thailand.
泰国佛教僧侣的生活方式使他们容易患上非传染性疾病。因此，泰国公共卫生部针对泰国佛教僧侣开展了一项非传染性疾病预防健康行为改变计划。本研究旨在检验针对 4786 名高危佛教僧侣开展的非传染性疾病预防健康行为改变计划的有效性。该计划于 2021 年 1 月 1 日至 2021 年 6 月 30 日持续 6 个月。采用描述性统计方法描述研究对象的特征，采用配对 t 检验比较均值差异。结果表明，健康行为改变计划可降低空腹血糖、体重指数、风险评分、高血压和吸烟评分。因此，该计划应在泰国东北地区用于减少泰国僧侣的非传染性疾病风险因素。
