Factors Affecting Participation of Public Health Emergency Response in Local Administrative Organizations, 9th Public Health Region among Healthcare Officers

Abstract

This cross-sectional analytical research was conducted to evaluate factors that have an impact on how much local healthcare officers collaborate in action during public health emergency conditions in the 9th health region, Thailand as the main objective. The data were collected between June and July 2022 via an online QR code containing Google form questionnaires which underwent validated by content validity index (CVI) and index of item-objective congruence (IOC) from professionals, and the reliability showed the coefficient alpha equal to 0.78-0.95. The sample consisted of 397 people from the simple random sampling method. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze basic characteristics. Pearson product moment correlation and Multiple linear regression analysis stepwise method was performed to analyze the correlation between factors and collaboration level.
The result showed that the local healthcare officers had amoderated in volvement level in the management of public heal the mergencies (52.14%). The factors showed significant association with this collaboration included gender, position, attitude, benefits from operations, individual skills, resource contribution, local policy and social support (p-value < 0.05). These factors contributed to predicting the collaboration during public emergency situations 36.00%. Therefore, in order to manage the operation of local healthcare sectors during public health emergencies effectively, all relatedorganizations should contribute to the operation in terms of supporting human resources and tools to local healthcare officers as well as skill improvement to boost their confidence during the operation.