Sunipol Phongam. The potentiality of the sub-district health officers in Nakhon Pathom province for performing the quality assurance scheme . Master's Degree(Population Education). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2003.
The potentiality of the sub-district health officers in Nakhon Pathom province for performing the quality assurance scheme
Abstract:
It is necessary to perform the quality assurance scheme at health centers to
convince customers that they are providing guaranteed quality, up-to-standard,
expected services. The quality assurance in health centers is a new thing that has an
effect on staff performance, so the purpose of this research are to study the level of
potentiality of the sub-district health officers for performing the quality assurance
scheme and to discover the factors related to their potentiality. The sample group
consisted of 230 sub-district health officers in Nakhon Pathom province. I developed
the questionnaires used in this study.
I delineated three aspects of the concept of potentiality used in performing the
quality assurance scheme: 1) knowledge of the quality assurance, 2) skills for
performing the quality assurance scheme and 3) motivation for performing the quality
assurance scheme. The predictive factors for knowledge of the quality assurance at
34.6 percent were quality assurance training experience, acquisition of quality
assurance information, educational level, supervisor support, and the number of
personnel at health centers. The predictive factors for skills for performing the quality
assurance scheme at 37.9 percent were quality assurance training experience, the
relationship among colleagues, acquisition of quality assurance information,
educational level, and gender. The predictive factors for motivation for performing the
quality assurance scheme at 36.6 percent were quality assurance training experience,
educational level, and supervisor support.
These findings suggest that the sub-district health officers should be
encouraged to receive more quality assurance training in order to increase their
potentiality for performing the quality assurance scheme and that team-work should be
promoted to ensure success in the performance of the quality assurance scheme at the
health centers in Nakhon Pathom with strong support from supervisors and related
organizations, specifically in the field of technical process