Volume : 3, Issue : 1, January - 2014

Evaluating the Behavior of Healthcare Workers

Mehmet Karatas, Yusuf Yakupogullari, Mehmet Fatih Korkmaz, Leyla Kilic, Recep Bentli

Abstract :

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of healthcare workers with a chronic disease or those who have a relative with a chronic disease who are also providing a healthcare service to patients with the same disease. Materials and Methods: This study was performed at Inonu University Turgut Ozal Health Center located in Malatya (a provincial city in Turkey) in November 2012. A total of 1178 lecturers (physicians), research assistants (physician assistants) and nurses provide a health service in this center, and some of them completed a survey regarding this study. The answers to this survey were evaluated with Pearson Chi-Square, Yates Corrected Chi-Square and Fisher’s Exact Tests in the SPSS 15.0 program. Values of P<0.05 were accepted as significant. Conclusions: According to our results, the most important factors affecting a healthcare worker’s attentiveness to patient with a chronic disease were gender (OR=2.35; 95% CI=1.06-5.17), working years (OR=0.53; 95% CI=0.32-0.88), and profession (OR=0.22; 95% CI=0.075- 0.667), respectively.