Administrative Factors and Key Success Factors Affecting the Preventive Dentistry Operation among Students of Dental Personnel in Sub-district Health Promoting Hospitals , Khon Kaen.

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study administrative factors and key success factors affecting preventive dentistry operations in students of dental personnel at sub-district health-promoting hospitals in Khon Kaen. The samples were 143 dental personnel chosen at random from 155 populations who work in preventive dentistry operations in students of dental personnel at sub-district health promoting hospitals in Khon Kaen using a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected by the questionnaire for the quantitative data and using in-depth interview guidelines for the qualitative data gathering from 12 key informants for content validity with items having objective congruence (IOC) of more than 0.50 and reliability with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.92. Data were collected between January 1st and January 20th, 2023. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics at a significance level of 0.05. The results showed that the levels of administrative factors, key success factors, and the preventive dentistry operation in students of dental personnel were at a high level with averages of 4.15 (S.D.=0.37) , 4.08 (S.D.=0.40) and 4.07 (S.D.=0.43), respectively. Overall administrative factors had a statistically significant high relationship with the preventive dentistry operation in students of dental personnel (r=0.732, p-value < 0.001) and key success factors had a statistically significant medium relationship with the preventive dentistry operation in students of dental personnel (r=0.518, p-value<0.001). The results found that five variables consisted of four variables of administrative factors; time, budget, management and man, and one variable of key success factors; the connection between the sub-district health promoting hospitals and the secondary hospitals affected and could jointly the preventive dentistry operation in students of dental personnel at sub-district health promotinghospitals, Khon Kaen at 69.0 percent (R2=0.690, p-value<0.001).