Attitudes of People towards the Emergency Medical Center Services of the Wang Thong Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Kamphaeng Phet Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to study attitudes of people towards the Emergency Medical Center Services of the Wang Thong Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Kamphaeng Phet Province, and 2) to compare personal factors and Emergency Medical Services Center of Wang Thong Sub-district Administrative Organization, Kamphaeng Phet Province. This was a quantitative research, collecting the data by a questionnaire from a sample group of 125 people who had received emergency medical center services or related persons living in Wang Thong Sub-district, Kamphaeng Phet Province. The analysis was performed by using the software program to find basic statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The values used in hypothesis testing include t-test, One-way Analysis of Variance, when differences were found, pairwise comparisons were made using the Scheffe method.

The study's results revealed that:

1) The attitudes of people towards the Emergency Medical Center Services of the Wang Thong Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Kamphaeng Phet Province, in overall average is at the highest level. When considering in each aspect from the highest value i.e., the delivery to the medical units, the transportation and care during delivery, the emergency medical treatment at the scene of the incident, the operations of emergency units and the reporting a request for help,  the average are at the highest level. In the area of illness and encounterment, the average is at a high level, respectively.

2) The comparison of personal factors with attitudes of people towards the Emergency Medical Center Services of the Wang Thong Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Kamphaeng Phet Province revealed that gender, age, educational level and length of time lived at the current address, the different people's attitudes towards emergency medical services are not different, significantly at .05.