Supachock Kaewngam. Quality of process of disease surveillance by the report form 506 at the health center level before and during universal health insurance coverage project in Nakhon Si Thammarat province . Master's Degree(Epidemiology). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2007.
Quality of process of disease surveillance by the report form 506 at the health center level before and during universal health insurance coverage project in Nakhon Si Thammarat province
Abstract:
The purposes of this analytic cross-sectional study were to measure the
completeness, accuracy, timeliness and total quality of disease reporting by Report
Form 506 at Health Center level, and to determine the association with potential
factors, and to compare the quality between before and during the Universal Health
Insurance Coverage Project in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province. The two study periods
were before and during Universal Health Insurance Coverage Project. Data was
separated into 2 parts. The data in the first part was collected by questionnaires and in
an other part the quality of the Report Form 506 was compared with the Record Form
1A01/1. The study sample consisted of 136 Health Centers. Data was analyzed by
percentage, mean, range standard deviation, independence t-test, one-way ANOVA
and paired t-test.
We found the completeness before and during the project were 58.00 % and
35.74 % respectively. During the Project, “kind of Health Center” had a significant
association with completeness (p=0.013). Completeness before and during the project
was significantly different (p<0.001).
Accuracy before and during the project was 87.80 % and 91.01 % respectively.
The variable “date of illness” was the least accuratc. During the project, “gender”
and “position” were significantly associated with accuracy (p=0.034 and 0.049
respectively). Accuracy before and during the project, was not different.
The mean times taken to send the Report Form 506 from the Health Center to
the District Health Office before and during the project were 28.95 and 38.03 days
respectively. Timeliness before and during the project was not different, and no
variable were associated with timeliness.
The total quality levels before and during the project were 69.83 % and
72.09 % respectively. No variable were associated with total quality. The total quality
before and during the project was significantly different (p<0.048).
This study could be applied to improve the quality of data in disease reporting
from epidemiological surveillance.