Predicting develop the research quality of health staff in Sisaket province

Abstract

          This cross-sectional analytical research to find predictive factors that affect research quality development of public health personnel in the public health department of Sisaket Province.           The sample consisted of personnel responsible for academic development of general hospitals, community hospital, district public health office, Tambon health promoting hospital and various sections of the Sisaket provincial public health office.173 people using descriptive statistics consisting of distribution, frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation(SD), minimum,maximum. Inferential Statistics investigated the association of factors affecting the scores for research quality development of health personnel in the public health department of Sisaket Province by Pearson's correlation coefficient statistics. Analysis equation to predict the relationship between two groups of variables by using Stepwise/Multinomial linear regression-statistics.
            The study found that most of the public health personnel were female, 72.8%, mostly between 21 - 30 years old, the average age was 38.3 years, the oldest was 59 years old and the youngest was 22 years old, and had the highest work experience between 21 years and over. 43.9 Most of them had experience in producing academic work before, 63.0%.Regarding the policy factors of executives towards the development of research quality as a whole, there were scores moderate the average score was 3.48,with the human resource management factor per research single variable having a high score with an average score of 3.96. Overall, the score was moderate had an average score of 3.39, found that it was at a high level with 2 factors: the creation of role models in the organization had an average score of 3.58 and honoring had an average score of 3.55.The results of the analysis of the relationship between factors related to research quality development of public health personnel in the public health department of Sisaket Province were 5 variables,namely,having a policy for developing research quality of organizational executives (r=0.973 p-value <0.00) Motivation determination for research quality improvement of organizational executives. (r=-0.183,p-value<0.017)Factors establishing academic teams within the organization (r=-0.199 p-value<0.009) factor in learning exchange activities in the organization  (r=-0.259 p-value<0.001) and the role modeling process factor in a good role model organization (r=-0.171, p-value<0.024).The other factors were insufficient to determine the relationship. and multiple regression analysis showed that the variables predicting the quality of research development quality of health personnel in the public health department of Sisaket Province Ranked in order of the best predictive variables were having a policy for developing research quality of organizational executives,budget allocation to support research and learning exchange activities in the organization, respectively, which can jointly predict and explain the variance in the scores of the research quality development level of health personnel in Sisaket Province by % 95.1(R2=0.951,SEest= 0.36969, F= 4.506,          p < 0.035) with statistical significance at the 0.05 level. Therefore, Sisaket Provincial Public Health Office Therefore, there should be a policy budget allocation to support operations and organize learning exchange activities within the organization on research quality improvement work This will result in good quality research in Sisaket Province.