Administrative factors and administrative process associated with practicing of dengue hemorrhagic fever preventing and controlling Among Health Personnel in Sukhothai Province

Abstract

          This descriptive research study aimed to study  administrative  factor and administrative process associated with practicing of dengue hemorrha gic fever preventing and controlling among health personnel. Population i- n this study was health personnel which be worked  at  Sub- district health promoting hospital, Sukhothai Province in fiscal year 2015 about 1,024 cas- es,   and the sample size calculating used Daniel formula for 280 cases, and systematic random sampling was determine. Collecting data by questionn- aires composed of 4 parts including, characteristics, administrative factors, administrative process,  and practicing of dengue hemorrhagic fever prev- enting and controlling among health personnel  at  Sub-district health pro- moting hospital,  Sukhothai Province.  In addition to,  validity was checked by  3  experts and try out testing reliability by Cronbach’s coefficient alpha about 0.93, association analysis used Pearson product moment correlation coefficient.

          The result shown that administrative factors including man, money, and material had mean score with moderate level for 70.70% (=2.29, S.D .=0.46),  an administrative process including planning, organizing, directi- ng,  co-ordination,  and reporting had mean score with moderate level for 56.80 %  (=2.53, S.D.=0.57).  Moreover,  practicing of dengue hemorrhagic fever preventing  and controlling including,  primary prevention,  second- ary prevention,  tertiary  prevention  had mean score with moderate level for 56.80 %  (=2.43, S.D.=0.50). An association analyzed found that admin- istrative factors and administrative  process  were associated with practic- ing of dengue hemorrhagic fever preventing and controlling among  heal- th personnel at Sub-district health promoting hospital,   Sukhothai Provin- ce with statistic significant (r=0.164, P-value=0.006, r=0.402, P-value<0.001, respectively).  The suggestion, chief executive should be support an appro- priate administrative factor adequately and continuously for all health pe- rsonnel worked  at Sub-district health promoting hospital,  and support to coordinate network for internal and external committee community netw- ork for practicing of  dengue hemorrhagic  fever preventing and controll- ing.