Environmental Health Management for Handle Emerging Infectious Diseases and Epidemics of Emergency Department in Governmental Hospitals in the Three Southern Border Provinces
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The purpose of this research was to study the environmental health management of the staff for handling emerging infectious diseases and epidemics in the emergency department of governmental hospitals in the three southern border provinces. This research is a quantitative study using questionnaires as a research tool. The sample group was 258 staff from the emergency department of governmental hospitals in the three southern border provinces, namely 7 in Pattani, 3 in Yala, and 6 in Narathiwat. Statistics used to analyze the collected data consisted of descriptive statistics, including frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation (S.D.). Also, inferential statistics were used, including a t-test and one-way analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA).
The results of this research revealed that the staff had environmental health management at a high level (𝑥̅ = 4.18, S.D. = 0.07), with knowledge and understanding at a high level (𝑥̅ = 17.35, S.D. = 2.28), awareness at a high level (𝑥̅ = 4.28, S.D. = 0.50), participation at a high level (𝑥̅ = 3.91, S.D. = 0.69), confidence at a high level (𝑥̅ = 4.03, S.D. = 0.59), satisfaction at a high level (𝑥̅ = 4.22, S.D. = 0.61), and performance behavior at a high level (𝑥̅ = 4.44, S.D. = 0.55). Furthermore, a comparison of environmental health management in the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases and epidemics in the emergency department of governmental hospitals in the three southern border provinces found that gender, province, level of hospital, operational duration, and average monthly income were significantly different at the .05 level.
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