Ebola Response: A study of the Psychosocial Factors of Preparedness Among Commissioned Corps Officers of the United States Public Health Service
| Autor: | Jeffery L Sumter, Adrienne Goodrich-Doctor, Thomas J. Mason, Jill C. Roberts |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Health Personnel Population 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Disease Outbreaks 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine United States Public Health Service Nursing Political science Health care medicine Humans Psychology 030212 general & internal medicine education Self-efficacy 021110 strategic defence & security studies education.field_of_study business.industry Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola United States Cross-Sectional Studies Preparedness Terrorism Linear Models Female business Psychosocial Military deployment |
| Zdroj: | Military medicine. 184(9-10) |
| ISSN: | 1930-613X |
| Popis: | IntroductionThe purpose of the cross-sectional study was to explore the relationships between occupational and general-self efficacy, and perceived preparedness among Commissioned Corps officers in the United States Public Health Service (Commissioned Corps). Commissioned Corps officers fight to protect the United States from diseases and care for the survivors of natural disasters and terrorist attacks. Commissioned Corps officers play a vital role in the fight to protect the United States from diseases and care for the survivors of natural disasters and terrorist attacks. The Commissioned Corps provided healthcare services in Liberia during the 2014 Ebola crisis that underscored the challenges of emerging diseases in a globalized community. It is imperative that these health professionals maintain a high level of self-efficacy and feel confident in their overall preparedness training as they respond to public health emergencies.Materials and MethodsThis study used assessment instruments derived from Albert Bandura’s concept of self-efficacy to analyze the occupational and general self-efficacy, and perceived preparedness levels of health services officers in the Commissioned Corps. 82 Commissioned Corps officers completed the assessment survey. To date, no study has examined the relationship between these constructs in this population.ResultsThere was a statistically significant relationship between feeling confident in one’s Commissioned Corps training and perceived preparedness (rs = 0.55, p < 0.001).ConclusionThis study reflects the training perceptions and self-beliefs of Commissioned Corps officers, fills an important gap in the empirical research in this population, and advances previous investigations, which suffered from an underrepresentation of female service members. |
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