Effects of Self Efficacy Promoting Program on Competencies Regarding Emergency Medical Service Among Emergency Medical Responders

Abstract

The purpose of this quasi experimental research was to study the effect of self-efficacy promoting program on competencies regarding emergency medical service among medical service responders. The subjects were 30 medical service responders who have worked in Phrae province. The subjects received self-efficacy promoting program which based on self-efficacy concept (Bandura, 1997). Self-efficacy promoting program consisted of four sources; 1) enactive mastery experiences 2) modeling 3) verbal persuasion, and 4) physiological and affective state. The instruments consisted of self-efficacy promoting program and competencies emergency medical services questionnaire which including knowledge, attitudes, and capability perform emergency medical services and the reliability were .71, .75, and 80 respectively. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and paired t-test. This results showed that after receiving the self-efficacy promoting program, the subjects had significantly higher mean scores of competencies regarding emergency medical services in the aspects of knowledge, attitudes, and capability perform emergency medical services than before receiving the self-efficacy promoting program (p < .001).