Organizational Support Affecting The Performance of The Surveillance and Rapid Response Team at District Level in UdonThani Province

Abstract

This research is a cross-sectional analytic study aimed to study individual characteristics and organizational supports that affecting the performance of The Surveillance and Rapid Response Team at district level in UdonThani province. The target population was the leaders of The Surveillance and Rapid Response Team at district level. 140 samples were achieved by stratified random sampling. Ten people were structurally interviewed by questionnaires designed to analyze the Cronbachα-coefficient of 0.97. Data were collected betweenMarch 17 – May 30 2014. Descriptive and inferential statistics were utilized.

Results revealed that samples were male for 55.7% with an average age of 37.51 years (S.D. = 9.96). Moreover, a percentage of 59.3 % was married, 77.9 graduated a bachelor degree, 44.3% (S.D. = 11,767.69) had an income ranged from 13,001 – 30,000 baht,52.1% worked as public health technical officer, 55.7% had less than 9years experience in epidemiologic field, 79.3 % passed a training in epidemiology, and 67.9 % had an important role in the team. In overall, for the level of the organizational supports and standard performance of The Surveillance and Rapid Response Team at district level in UdonThani province, found that the level was high with an average of 3.70 (S.D.=0.50) and 3.91 (S.D.=0.45) respectively. The result from the study of correlations of individual characteristics indicated a low level of correlation for trainings in epidemiology and the standard performance of The Surveillance and Rapid Response Team, with a statistic significance(r=0.188, p-value=0.028). Likewise, a high level of correlation was found for the correlations of organizational supports and the standard performance of The Surveillance and Rapid Response Team, also with a statistic significance (r=0.712, p-value<0.001). A variable that influence the standard performance of The Surveillance and Rapid Response Team at district level in UdonThani was the organizational supports for the administration and time management, which can predict the standard performance of The Surveillance and Rapid Response Team at district level in UdonThani at the percentage of 55.8