Leadership Soft Skill and Administrative Factors Affecting the Food Sanitation Performance of Public Health Officers in Local Government Organizations Khon Kaen Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to investigate the effects of leadership soft skills and administrative factors of 134 of public health officers in local government organization, Khon Kaen province. Research instruments were consisted of questionnaires and in-depth interview forms. The questionnaire's content validity was approved by 3 experts with consistency index of all questions of greater than 0.50 and overall validity of the questionnaire was 0.98. Data collection was implemented from February 28, 2022 to March 13, 2023. Descriptive statistics included frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, medians, minimums, maximums, and quartiles. Inferential statistics were performed using Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficients with significance level of 0.05.

It was found that the samples’ overall leadership soft skills (=4.01, SD=0.68), administrative factors (=3.98, SD=0.65) and food sanitation performance (=3.85, SD=0.80) were at a high level. Additionally, leadership soft skills were found significantly associated at a medium level with the food sanitation performance of public health officers (r=0.731, p-value<0.001). Administrative factors were also found to be significantly associated at a high level (r=0.753, p-value<0.001). The three independent variables including administrative factors on time, leadership soft skills on coaching, administrative factors on management, were found to be collaboratively effective for the forecasting of the food sanitation performance of public health officers in local government organizations Khon Kaen province at 62.1 (R²=0.621, p-value<0.001).