In the year of 2003, the SARS epidemic was spreading in our country, lasting for almost 4 months. Until July 5,2003, there were 346 confirmed victims. Among them,37 died directly of SARS, which is shown in their death certificates.
Numbers of medical workers infected were 68,19.7%. During the SARS epidemic.6 hospitals were reported transmissions inside their wards and were closed. In the duration, Taiwan was once the most significant spread region of the disease in the world. General public, patients and their family members, and health-care workers were all unprecedented threatened.
During the epidemic, health-care workers faced unfamiliar, insecure, critical menace strong contagious and of high mortality circumstances. What did this affect first line health-care workers? This research was done in three dimensions , work value, Organizational Commitment and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, sampling every grade of health-care workers in teaching hospitals and above national wide between Dec. 20, 2003 and Jan. 20, 2004. The design of questionnaire was based on level of hospitals, divided into medical centers, regional hospitals and local teaching hospitals. 282 of the questionnaires were returned and valid, including 42 doctors, 130 nurses, and 110 hospital staffs, representing a response rate of 31.33%.
One way ANOVA and Independent T test were conducted in the research to analyze characteristics of workers and differences between hospital organizations. Correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to find their relationships.
The research has shown that while facing SARS epidemic, health-care workers :
1.with the change of work values, nurses scored highest ,then others, and doctors lowest; with positional type social status, activity preference and job involvement, high and middle level administrator got better grade than professional and basic level worker; with attitude toward earning, basic level worker acquired highest scores and high level administrator lowest; with activity preference¤Îpride in work, regional hospital obtained the highest score while the medical center got the lowest.
2.with the transition of Organizational Commitment, in terms of position, high level administrator is highest, while basic level worker is lowest; in respect of referee, regional hospital graded highest while medical center lowest; in view of marital status, people who are unmarried are better than those who are married.
3.with the,PTSD, considering referee of hospital, medical centers are highest; in terms of ownership,private hospital is highest and religional hospital is lowest.
4.workers who considered that the hospitals took proper protections have better Organizational Commitment and their PTSD are lower.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0729104-161014 |
| Date | 29 July 2004 |
| Creators | Chen, Hsuehe |
| Contributors | Jin Feng Uen, PhD, RN, Shu-Chuan Jennifer Yeh, PhD, RN, Ko, Jyh-Jer Roger, PhD, RN |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0729104-161014 |
| Rights | restricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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