Individual feature and administrative factors affecting the performance of information management of health personal at sub-district health promoting hospitals in Khon Kaen Province

Abstract

               This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study the individual characteristics and administrative factors affecting   performance of dental health technician at sub-district health promoting hospitals, Khon Kaen Province.  The samples were 92 personnel randomly selected by simple random sampling from the 134 population. The questionnaire was examined and verified by the three experts for content validity and tested for reliability in pilot study of 30 samples at 0.96. Data collection was carried out from May5^st to 31^th; 2015. Data distribution was performed by descriptive statistics including percentages, means and standard deviations. Inferential statistics were Pearson product moment correlation and Stepwise multiple linear regressions.

              Majority of the samples were female (62.0%). About 61.8 percent of the samples were under 30 years old. Most of the samples were single (47.8%) and about 70.7 percent hold bachelor's degree. The results showed that the administrative factors and performance of dental health technician were at high levels with averages of 4.03 (SD=0.37)and 4.26(SD=0.41), respectively. The administrative factors had moderate positive relationship with performance of dental health technician (r = 0.598, p-value < 0.001). The administrative factors; management material and time could predict performance of dental health technician in subdistrict health promoting hospital, Khon Kaen Province at 44.4 percent (R² = 0.444,p-value<0.001 ).