PERCEPTION OF THE PEOPLE ON MEASURES TO REMEDIAL MEASURES THE PM 2.5 DUST PROBLEM OF THAWIWATTHANA DISTRICT BANGKOK

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) study the level of perception of the people on measures to remedial measures the pm 2.5 dust problem of Thawiwatthana district Bangkok, and 2) compare the level of public awareness of the PM 2.5 dust problem-solving measures in Thawiwatthana District, Bangkok, classified by personal factors. This was a quantitative research study. The population used in this study was 49,936 people in Thawiwatthana District, Bangkok. A sample of 381 people was obtained from the ready-made table of Krejcie and Morgan. The accidental sampling method was used. The research instrument was a questionnaire that used Klapper's concept of awareness as a framework for creating the data. The statistics used for data analysis included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and hypothesis testing using F-values and t-values. The results of the research found that (1) the public had a moderate level of perception overall and in each aspect, ranked from highest to lowest as follows: information reception, attention, perception and interpretation, and memory. (2) The results of the comparison of the people’s perception of the PM 2.5 dust problem-solving measures classified by gender and age showed no different levels of awareness. However, the level of education and occupation showed different levels of perception. The results of the pairwise difference test found that those who were general employees had lower perception than those who were civil servants/state enterprise employees, with statistical significance at the 0.05 level, and those who were general employees had lower perception than those who were private employees, with statistical significance at the 0.05 level. Public relations recommendations for the prevention and resolution of PM 2.5 dust problems in Thawiwatthana District should be implemented through various media formats.