Motivation and Organizational Support Affecting the Epidemiology Performance of Health Personnel at Sub - District Health Promoting Hospitals in Buriram Province

Abstract

         This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study the  motivation and organizational support affecting the Epidemiology performance of health personnel at sub-district health promoting hospitals in Buriram province, Thailand. A set of 120 health personnel was randomly selected by systematic random sampling from the 227 populations. Data was collected  by questionnaire for qualitative data and in-depth interview guidelines for the qualitative data gathering from 12 key informants. The questionnaire that examined and verified by the three experts for content validity items objective congruence (IOC), all items were more than 0.50 and the reliability with Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.98. Data was collected between 14th November to 14th December 2022. Data analysis was performed by descriptive and inferential statistics at a significance level of 0.05.

         The results showed that the level of overall motivation factors, organizational support, and the Epidemiology performance of health personnel were at a high level with averages of 3.82 (S.D=0.37), 3.88 (S.D.=0.44) and 4.00 (S.D.=0.37), respectively. The overall motivation factors and organizational support had a high and moderate level of relationship with the Epidemiology performance of health personnel (r=0.742, p-value<0.001) and (r=0.670,  p-value<0.001), respectively. Additionally the three variables consisted of one variable of motivator factor; responsibility, and two of organizational support: management and career status, which were affected and could jointly predicted the Epidemiology performance of health personnel at sub-district health promoting hospitals in Buriram province at 67.1 percentage (R²=0.671, p-value<0.001)