Key Success Factors and Organizational Support Affecting the Infectious Waste Management of Health Personnel at Community Hospital in Nakhonratchasima Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study key success factors and organizational support affecting the infectious waste management of Health Personnel at Community Hospital in Nakhonratchasima Province, Thailand. A set of 193 health personnel was calculated using the sample size calculation formula for stepwise multiple linear regression and selected using a stratified random sampling technique from 522 populations. Data was collected by the questionnaire for the quantitative data and in-depth interview guidelines for the qualitative data gathering from 12 key informants. The questionnaire was verified by three experts for content validity, with items objective congruence (IOC) all items were more than 0.50, and reliability with Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.96. Data was collected between 30^th November and 30^th December 2022. Data analysis was performed by descriptive and inferential statistics at a significant level of 0.05.

               The results showed that the overall of keys success factors,organizational support and infectious waste management of health personnel were at a high level, ( =4.16, S.D.=0.30), (=4.18, S.D.=0.34) and (=4.42, S.D.= 0.46), respectively. The overall of key success factors and organizational support had a statistically significant moderate relationship with the infectious waste management of health personnel (r=0.576, p-value<0.001) and (r=0.386, p-value<0.001),respectively. In addition, the reslts found that three variables consisted of two variables of keys success factors; creating understanding and encouraging cooperation, haring plan support from agencies at all levels, and one variable of organizational support; management aftected and could jointly predicted the infectious waste management of health personnel in Nakhonratchasima Province at 61.1 percent (R²=0.611, p-value<0.001) Therefore, the relevant agencies should be more study on factors affecting the promotion of participation in the infectious waste management of public health personnel in community hospitals as well as factors affecting the network coordination in infectious waste management in community hospitals.