The Factors influencing on the Infectious Waste Management in Kanchanaburi Provincial

Abstract

           This descriptive research aims to study the factors influencing on the Infectious waste management in Kanchanaburi Provincial. The data was collected purposive sampling from 157 Health professionals working for the infectious waste management in all Public Health Facilities by using the questionnaires which divided into 4 aspects: 1.Individual factors 2.the perceiving of the Infectious waste management, 3. the social support of the Infectious waste management and 4. the working behaviors of the Infectious waste management. During September – December 2019.

           Data were analyzed including basic statistics, mean, standard deviation. Pearson's product moment correction coefficient was used to determine the coefficient between the independent and the dependent variable to test the hypothesis of the research. The statistical analysis of Stepwise multiple regression was used to find predictive factors for the working behaviors of the Infectious wastemanagement

           The results shown that the majority of respondents was female (77.1%) Marriage (61.8%) Secondary school level (61.1%) Aged between 31 to 40 yrs. (32.5%) Duration of working less than 10 years (73.9%) Salary less than 10,000 Baht (78.3%) Have been trained with the Infectious Waste Management (64.97%).

           The perceiving of the Infectious waste management was the highest (Mean= 4.43, S.D.= 0.45), The social support of the Infectious waste management was high (Mean= 4.04, S.D.= 0.55) and the working behaviors of the Infectious waste management was the highest (Mean= 4.27, S.D.= 0.50).

           The social support, the number of trainings, and the perceiving factors were statistically significant with the working behavior of the infectious waste management (p=0.05. The factors that were able to predict the Health Professionals’working behaviors of the Infectious waste management was the social support of the Infectious waste management that was statistically significant prediction of the behaviour at 20 percent (p = 0.05) with regression coefficients of 0.439

           The researcher suggested the development of the working behaviour of the infectious waste management should focus on the encouragement of Health professionals’motivation and understanding. Especially, providing the training programme is more likely to be useful for developing the confidence on the infectious waste management among health professionals.