Health Care Worker (HCW) Awareness in The Operative Management of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in A Community Hospital. A Case Study: Namom Hospital, Songkhla Province

Abstract

Background: Coronavirus 2019 causes the problems with the respiratory system.  Some severely coronavirus 2019 infected patients can risk to death.  As HCW are risked to be infected from patients’ care, this research was conducted to the development a plan for handing the infected diseases and other newly infected diseases in the future.

Objectives :To study the HCW’s awareness in the operative management of coronavirus 2019 in Namom hospital in three areas as their perception of the disease severity, disease management and their perception of the advantages of the infection prevention.

Materials and Methods: The sample covered 148 HCW at Namom hospital. The data collecting tool was a survey questionnaire which its reliability was inspected as 0.85. The descriptive statistics was used to analyze the general data.  The sample t-test and one way ANOVA were used for the statistical testing.

Results: The sampled group was aware of operating their duties in managing the coronavirus 19 disease infection.  In general, the awareness level was high.  Although the sampled group was different in sexes and work experiences, his awareness level in managing the coronavirus 2019disease infection was not different (p>0.05).  The sampled group who operated in different kinds of work had the awareness in managing the infection differently.  The difference was statistical significance as p <0.05.

Conclusion: This research showed that the HCW at Namom hospital were aware of managing the coronavirus 2019disease infection at the high level.