A Development Process of Increasing Ability for Infectious Waste Management among Health Personnel of Sub-District Health Promoting Hospital in Sukhothai Province

Abstract

The objective of this study was to develop and examine the effectiveness of process of increasing ability in infectious waste management among health personal of sub-district health promoting hospital in Sukhothai province. The study was conducted in 3 phases. The first phase aimed to assess factors associate with infectious waste management among health personal of sub-district health promoting hospital. The samples were 225 participants recruited by multistage random sampling. A questionnaire was administered by face to face interviews and analysis by Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient. The result showed that such variables as knowledge, attitude, motivation, counseling and supporting from manager were associated with infectious waste management among health personal of sub-district health promoting hospital statistical significance (p-value <0.05). The second phase was to construct process of increasing ability which consisted of the study on needs suggested by stakeholders and the content validity which was approved by experts. The resulting program consisted of 4 steps: (1) the learning infectious waste management; (2) exchange experiences; (3) practice in infectious waste management (4) counseling and supporting from manager. The third phase was to evaluate effectiveness of increasing ability program in infectious waste management; and it was found that there was a significant increasing in the average score of infectious waste management behavior after the intervention (p-value <0.05). Therefore, this increasing ability program in infectious waste management should be input knowledge, practice, counseling and supporting from manager.