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KMID : 1003620100020020051
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Journal of Korean Aging Health Friendly Policy Association
2010 Volume.2 No. 2 p.51 ~ p.65
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The Relation of Occupational Therapist Awareness, Performance, and Empowerment with Nosocomical Infection Control in Kyeong-nam
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Lee Hyo-Jeong
Park Ju-Young
Yang Yeong-Ae
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Abstract
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Objective: The aim of this study was conducted to investigate the level of awareness, performance and empowerment of the occupational therapist on nosocomical infection and evaluate potential factors in order to provide fundamental data for the development of program and policy on the prevention of it.
Method: The study data was collected from 152 occupational therapist in 30 hospitals located in Gyeongnam from July 2010 to October 2010. The research instrument was a self-administered standardized questionnaire including general characteristics, awareness, performance and performance for prevention of nosocomical infection and empowerment. For the assessment of this study, descriptive analyses, t-tests, correlation analyses and multiple regression analyses were made. The results derived from the study are as follows.
Result: Occupational therapist empowerment was 3.66 and the highest meaningfulness highest followed by ability, self-determination, and influential power. Occupational therapist awareness was 4.45 and performance was 3.89. It was found that there was a slight statistically positive correlation between the occupational therapist empowerment and their degree of awareness of and performance in nosocomical infection control. Performance degree become an important influential factor to their empowerment.
Conclusion: We could know that there was significant correlation between the occupational therapist awareness, performance in nosocomical infection control and their empowerment. There should be an exploration on methods for improving awareness and performance degree and thereby develop prevention educational programs through which one can be informed on how to prevent nosocomical infections by effective hospital acquired infection control.
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KEYWORD
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occupational therapist, nosocomical infection, awareness, performance, empowerment
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