Analysis of medical personnel toward pulmonary tuberculosis in knowledge, attitude and behavior ways

• Main Authors: Tasi-Hui Chen, 陳彩惠
• Other Authors: Wei-Kang Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98773946019558905277

碩士 === 元智大學 === 管理研究所 === 96 === ABSTRACT Tuberculosis has become the emergent crisis which threaten global human health. Tuberculosis is still the most common and severe reported infectious disease with more than 10000 confirmed cases each year in recent 5 years in Taiwan. MDR-TB cases also increase steadily and make the treatment more difficult. Except from patient’s drug compliance , health education still play an import role. This study is to analyze medical staff’s knowledge attitude and behavior pattern toward tuberculosis in a TB special hospital and to explore the differences between each different medical group. This study collected 329 questionaires from 350 pieces with 324 effective samples obtained during 2008-2-13 till 2008-2-21. The result reveal attitude is interrelated to behavior and knowledge. Behavior is not related to knowledge. Data also show knowledge is related to gender, career age, department, nursing degree and training time. Attitude is related to age, marital status and nursing degree. Behavior is not related to any factor.The data also show the resign of medical personnel is related to the care of tuberculosis patient, about 43.5% families will persuade medical staff to resign or transfer to other wards if possible. This study can provide the present role playing of tuberculosis care by different medical staff, which can guide the training program design and promote care quality. Keywords：medical personnel ,Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Knowledge,Attitudes,behaviors