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KMID : 0379720220360030347
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2022 Volume.36 No. 3 p.347 ~ p.360
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Factors Influencing the Preventive Behaviors of COVID-19 by Health Care Workers: A Mixed Methods Study
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Lee Ji-Hye
Han Suk-Jung
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the risk perception, safety climate and preventive behaviors of COVID-19 infections, and to verify the factors influencing the adoption of preventive behaviors by health care workers.
Methods: A mixed-method approach was used based on a survey carried out in a general hospital. Quantitative data (N=181) were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using multiple regression. Qualitative data (N=8) were collected through individual interviews and analyzed through Colaizzi’s phenomological research method.
Results: The factors influencing adoption of preventive behaviors by health care workers were safety climate (β=.41, p<.001), education (β=-.20, p=.025), work unit (β=-.16, p=.032), and risk perception (β=.15, p=.020). The explanatory power was 28.3%, and they have shown that these health care workers felt ‘the threat of a pandemic like a battlefield’, experienced ‘struggle with quarantine rules’ and realized ‘the reality of infection control and the reorganization for change’.
Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that to increase the adoption of infection control preventive behaviors by health care workers when faced with new infectious diseases in the future, it is necessary to establish organizational support and a safe climate. This study confirms the need for preemptive support and education.
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KEYWORD
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Health care worker, COVID-19, Risk perception, Safety climate, Preventive behaviors
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