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Does Similarity in Educational Level Between Health Promotion Volunteers and Local Residents Affect Activity Involvement of the Volunteers?
Author(s) -
Murayama Hiroshi,
Taguchi Atsuko,
Murashima Sachiyo
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2011.00965.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , affect (linguistics) , promotion (chess) , medicine , cross sectional study , similarity (geometry) , health promotion , census , gerontology , public health , environmental health , demography , psychology , nursing , population , sociology , politics , political science , computer science , law , image (mathematics) , communication , pathology , artificial intelligence
Objectives: This study examined whether similarity in educational level, as a socioeconomic background factor, between health promotion volunteers (HPVs) and residents in the district where HPVs work encourages the volunteers' involvement in providing activities.Design and Sample: Cross‐sectional questionnaire survey. A total of 512 HPVs in a Japanese city with 5 districts.Measures: We focused on the number of activities related to working as an HPV as an aspect of involvement in the HPV role. HPV individual educational level was collected from a questionnaire. District educational level was obtained from the Japanese census database.Results: Of 512 questionnaires, 363 were returned and used for the analysis. Multiple regression analysis stratified by district educational level indicated that a higher educational level in HPVs was significantly associated with a greater number of self‐motivated activities in the districts with a higher educational level, although the association between a lower HPV educational level and more activity involvement was not found in districts with a lower educational level.Conclusions: It is important to consider similarity in educational level, as a socioeconomic status factor, between HPVs and the districts in which they will work when recruiting new members and when allocating HPVs to work areas.