Attitude of Village Health Volunteer about Emergency Medical Service Case Study : Namomdistric, Songkhla Province

Abstract

Background: Injuries and emergency illnesses such as cardiac arrest, ischemic stroke and obstetric emergencies, including accidents, etc. are the leading causes of premature death. As mentioned above, there is a service for transferring patients to a service facility by skilled persons, but according to the past data from Namom Hospital, such patients come to receive services with less emergency medical systems. This made the researcher interested to study the why communication about the emergency medical service system to the public is not widespread. focusing on community health workers, namely village health volunteers, to distribute and communicate information to the public. People in the community

Objective: This research aims to study Village Health Volunteers’ attitudes toward the system of Emergency Medical Service.

Materials and Methods: The population of Village Health Volunteers in Namom.Sample group using Krejcie and Morgan tablerandomized bysimple random sampling.  The questionnaire was divided into three sections which were proofread by an expert and its reliability was tested by using Cronbach’s alpha. The data were collected from the 1st September 2019 to the 31st October 2019.  The data were analyzed by using the descriptive statistics.  The statistical analyses of T-test and F-test were used.

Results: The research outcome showed that the Village Health Volunteers had medium knowledge as (80%) related to the Emergency Medical Service.  Their attitude related to the Emergency Medical Service was at good level (59%).  In terms of the relationship between individuals and the Emergency Medical Service, ages, occupations, and work experiences did not influence the volunteers’ attitude and knowledge toward the Emergency Medical Service (P>.05) while their educational had the impact on their knowledge on the service as statistical significance of (P< .05).

Conclusion: Based on the research, the Village Health Volunteers were well prepared to take care of their communities related to the Emergency Medical Service.  However, they still lacked knowledge and skills.  If their knowledge and skills are enhanced, they will increase their confidence to continue serving their own communities.