Organizational Support Affecting The Performance of Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever Prevention and Control Among the Sub-District Health Promoting Hospital in Mahasarakam Province

Abstract

The study is a cross-sectional descriptive research.  This study aimed to study organization support affecting the performance of dengue haemorrhagic fever prevention and control among sub-district health promoting hospital in Mahasarakam province. The population was 175 chiefs of sub-district health promotion hospital in Mahasarakam province and 12 indepth interviews of purposive selected key informants. The research instruments were the questionnaires and interview guidelines. The validity was checked by 3 experts and Cronbach^,s Alpha Coefficient of instruments was 0.95. The data were collected during 1 October 2012 to 30 November 2012. Then analyzed to acquire percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Stepwise Multiple Regression.

                The study revealed that the most of sample were female (56.00 percent) average aged 36.00 years old, status married 61.10 percentage, graduated bachelor degree 85.70 percentage, income less than 15,000 bath 30.30 percentage and average income 21,513 baht/month. They had been the dengue haemorrhagic fever prevention and control performances average aged 10.62 years old(S.D. = 8.10)

                The organizational support was at high”level (=3.62, S.D.=0.46) and affective the performance of vector borne disease prevention and control was at high”level (=3.84, S.D.= 0.52). The organizational support related to dengue haemorrhagic fever prevention and control at 0.05 level (r=0.57, p-value < 0.001). Two significance variables that predicted the performance of dengue haemorrhagic fever prevention and control were manangement and materials, which could predicted the performance of dengue haemorrhagic fever prevention and control among the chief of Sub-District Health Promotion Hospital in Mahasarakam province as 55.90 %.