Knowledge and self-expressed competency of the health personnel regarding disaster and its preparedness
Journal Title: The Journal of Community Health Management - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Disasters cause great harm to the existing infrastructure and threaten the future of sustainable development The occurrence of disasters and related causalities are one of the realities of mans life The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge and selfexpressed competency of the health personnel regarding disaster and its preparedness in selected hospitals Mangaluru Objectives of the study are to assess the knowledge regarding disaster and its preparedness among health personnel to determine the selfexpressed competency of health personnel on disaster and its preparedness and to correlate knowledge with selfexpressed competency of health personnel on disaster and its preparedness Descriptive research design was used Study sample consists of 200 health personnel working in hospitals in Mangaluru who were available at the time of data collection and who fulfilled the inclusion criteria The data was collected using selfadministered structured knowledge questionnaire and five point selfexpressed competency rating scaleResult Majority 42 7924 of the doctors had good level of knowledge whereas majority 80 6667 of nurses and 134815 of paramedical staffs had average knowledge regarding disaster and its preparedness Overall knowledge score was high among doctors with mean percentage of 8055 with mean and SD of 3222 2177 Next highest was among nurses with mean percentage of 6729 with mean and SD of 2655 5272 Least was among paramedical staffs with mean percentage of 6638 with mean and SD of 28275 4516 Regarding level of selfexpressed competency among subjects 47 8867 doctors showed high level of competency among nurses 55 4583 of them showed high level of competency among paramedical 7 2592 of them showed high level of competency regarding disaster and its preparedness There was positive correlation between level of knowledge and selfexpressed competency of health personnel regarding disaster and its preparedness The findings of the study support the need for providing educational and training to improve the knowledge and selfexpressed competency of the health personnel regarding disaster and its preparedness Keywords CompetencyDisasterHealth personnelKnowledge Preparedness
Authors and Affiliations
Veena Gretta. Tauro, Vijetha Kottari
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- DOI 10.18231/2394-2738.2018.0035
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