Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers’s Citizenship Affecting Participation in the Older Persons Care of Thailand

This research has three objectives. 1) To study the level of participation in older persons care ofCare-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in Thailand. 2) To study the type of citizenship factors and characteristics of the Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers's citizenshipaffecting participation in the older persons care. 3) To create discriminant function of the type ofcitizenship factors and characteristics of the Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers'scitizenship affecting classification of participation in the older persons care in Thailand. The sample size used in this study were 1,373 Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in Thailand whowere identified using G * Power program and multi-stage random sampling. The instrument used tocollect data was quantitative research by questionnaire at the reliability was 0.87. Statistics used indata analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, canonical correlation analysisand discriminant analysis on all variables into the function. The results of this study revealed that the level of participation in the older persons care of the Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in Thailand was at a high level ( = 3.80, S.D. = 0.59). Then, factors affecting the classification of participation in older persons care of Care-for-the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in Thailand were 12 factors. Finally, the discriminant function type of participation in older persons care of Carefor- the-Older Person-at-Home Volunteers in standardize was = 0.10x1 0.12x2 0.11x3 0.09x6 0.12x7 0.31x8 0.16x9 0.09x10 0.19x11 0.17x12 0.35x13 0.14x14