Factors Associated with Research Conducting Among Health Personnel in Kongra Contracted Unit of Primary Care, Phatthalung Province

Abstract

The purpose of this analytic cross-sectional study was to investigate factors associated with research conducting among health personnel in Kongra contracted unit of primary care, Phatthalung province. Of these, the population of the study was 124 persons working in Kongra contracted unit of primary care, Phatthalung province. The data was gathered and interviewed by using questionnaire consisted of demographic factors, knowledge, attitude, motivation and environment towards research conducting were 0.701, 0.624, 0.701, and 0.783 respectively. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to analyze factors associated with research conducting among health personnel. The main results found that working experience (OR: 1.36, 95%CI: 1.10 to 1.67), previous research studying (OR: 4.04, 95%CI: 1.29 to 12.59) and research training (OR: 11.70, 95%CI: 4.10 to 33.38) were significantly associated with research conducting among health personnel. The results suggested that committees of contracted unit of primary care should promote research knowledge and process among health personnel by establishing external well-experienced experts. As well as, the research mentors should be launched by participating of well-experienced health personnel to support into doing research and develop body of knowledge in further works.