DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH RELATED BUDDHIST MISSIONARIES MODEL TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AND TO PREVENT METABOLIC SYNDROMES AMONG BUDDHIST MONKS IN NAN PROVINCE

Abstract

This descriptive research aimed to describe level of knowledge,
attitude, and practice towards Health Promotion and Metabolic Syndrome
Prevention among Buddhist Monks, along with to examine the relationships
among those three variables. Bloom’s taxonomy was used as a conceptual
framework for this study. However, this study was a preliminary study
among 89 monks who lived in Nan Province. Four questionnaires were used
for collecting data, including demographic questionnaire, knowledge
questionnaire, attitude questionnaire, and practice questionnaire related to
health promotion and metabolic syndrome prevention. Data were analyzed
by using descriptive statistics, and Pearson product moment correlation.
Results revealed that monks had good level of knowledge and
attitude related to metabolic syndrome. However, practice towards
metabolic syndrome prevention among Buddhist Monks were at moderate
level. According to the relationships, knowledge had positive correlation
with attitude (r=.25, p < .05) but no relationship with practice (r=.04, p >
.05). In addition, attitude had statistically significant positive relationship with
practice towards metabolic syndrome prevention (r=.28, p < .05).