Causal Relationships of Factors Effected to the efficiency in complying with the Ambulance Safety Measures of ambulance drivers, Health Region 6
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Background: During the year 2015-2017 a study shows that there were 129 events of ambulances accident, 261 people were injured and 25 died, so in 2015, the Ambulance Safety Measure has been set up in all health regions by Ministry of Public Health. However, the measures focused only on drive safely but there was stills lack of essential factors to support the success of the measures.
Objectives: 1) To study the level of health literacy, quality of work life and the efficiency of complying with the Ambulance Safety Measure. 2) To study the causal relationships of factors effected to the efficiency in complying with the Ambulance Safety Measures on ambulance drivers.
Materials and methods: This consisted of cross-sectional descriptive study 219 samples. Stratified random sampling and simple random sampling were used. The instrument was a questionnaire. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data.
Results: The study found that: 1) Ambulance drivers had high level in health literacy, quality of work life and the efficiency of complying with the Ambulance Safety Measures. 2) Quality of work life had direct and indirect effects on the efficiency of complying with the Ambulance Safety Measures, but health literacy had only direct effect and larger effect than quality of work life. However, both factors were able to predict the efficiency of complying with the Ambulance Safety Measures in high score (70 %).
Conclusion: The main factor which effected to the efficiency of complying with the Ambulance Safety Measures was health literacy; however quality of work life was still important to go on with it.
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