This study seeks to serve as a baseline survey of the knowledge, attitudes and practices
(KAP) of surgical registrars concerning hospital disaster preparedness across 3 tertiary
hospitals in Gauteng. This is owing to the fact that a perusal of the relevant literature
reveals that while considerable research exists for the assessment of hospital disaster
preparedness within an international context, there was a lack of information pertaining to
the South African setting.
A stratified random sampling process was applied to 30 surgical registrars who were asked
to complete a self-administered questionnaire. Thus the study design was a cross sectional
descriptive study of the surgical registrars working across 3 tertiary hospitals in Gauteng.
A response rate of 83% was achieved. The study concluded that while 80% of surgical
registrars surveyed had an excellent level of knowledge about hospital disaster
preparedness, only 52% of the respondents have positive attitudes towards hospital disaster
preparedness. An overwhelming majority of the surgical registrars (84%) reported poor
practices concerning hospital disaster preparedness.
The findings of this study has lead to the following key recommendations being made: a)
the need for a dedicated national hospital disaster preparedness fund, b) the provision of
regular in-service training on hospital disaster preparedness with special attention being
given to registrars with greater than 11 years of clinical experience c) need for hospital
disaster preparedness training to adhere to some form of quality control d) setting up of a
task team to conduct regular audits on the practices of hospitals in terms of disaster preparedness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/6935 |
| Date | 08 May 2009 |
| Creators | Sahdeo, Joanne |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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