Personal Characteristics and Administrative Factors Affecting The Performance of Surveillance and Rapid Response Team at Sub-district Health Promoting Hospitals in Chaiyaphum Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study personal characteristics and administrative factors affecting the performance of surveillance and rapid response team at sub-district health promoting hospitals in Chaiyaphum province Thailand. A set of 138 health personnel was randomly selected by Simple Random Sampling techniques from 167 populations. Data was collected by questionnaires for quantitative data and in-depth interview guidelines for qualitative data gathering from 12 key informants. The questionnaire was examined and verified by three experts for content validity with items objective congruence (IOC), all items were more than 0.50 and reliability with Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.92. Data was collected between 23^rd January to 23^rd February 2023. Data analysis was performed by descriptive and inferential statistics at a significant level of 0.05.

The results showed that the overall level of administrative factors and the performance of surveillance and rapid response team were at a high level with, averages of 3.74 (S.D. = 0.33) and 3.79 (S.D.=0.45), respectively and overall of administrative factors and characteristics of marital status (single), position (public health officer) had moderate and low relationship with the performance of surveillance and rapid response team (r=0.622, r=0.347, p-value<0.001 and r=0.202, p-value=0.017), respectively and the characteristics of age, income and work experience had the inversely moderate relationship
(r= -0.491, r= -0.489 and r= -0.454, p-value <0.001), respectively. Three variables consisted of two variables of administrative factors; man power and technology including characteristics of income affected and could jointly predicted the performance of surveillance and rapid response team at sub-district health promoting hospitals in Chaiyaphum province at 47.6 percentage (= 0.476, p-value <0.001)