An analysis on the emergency personnel capability assessment and the influencing factors among CDCs of municipal and county levels / 预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate capacity among emergency staffs from center of disease control and prevention in Zhejiang Province at municipal and county levels, and to analyze the influencing factors. Methods Using multi-stage cluster sampling, 501 emergency staffs from 33 CDCs of the two levels in Zhejiang Province was involved in this study. Characteristics of the study population and their emergency acknowledge and capacities were collected by questionnaire. Rank test, correlation analysis and multiple logistic regression analysis were used to assess the level of capacities and analyze the influencing factors. Results At municipal and county levels, there were 165 (32.93%) and 336(67.07%) emergency staffs respectively, and the median scores of emergency acknowledge were 60 and 58.33, and the lowest scores of the knowledge both were Nuclear/Radiation. The median scores of emergency capacities were 61.82 and 55.76, and the lowest score of the capacities were both Sampling/Detection. Ordinal multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that the scores of emergency knowledge (OR=1.19, 95%CI 1.16-1.22), senior title (ORprimary title=0.22, 95%CI 0.13-0.39; ORmiddle title=0.37, 95%CI 0.23-0.60), male (OR=2.00, 95%CI 1.39-2.89), experience of emergency tour (OR=1.63, 95%CI 1.01-2.61) and the level of CDC (OR=1.57, 95%CI 1.06-2.34) were the positive influencing factors of emergency capacity. Conclusion In Zhejiang Province, there were significant weaknesses in the Nuclear/Radiation knowledge and Sampling/Detection ability among emergency staffs of municipal-level and county-level CDCs. Level, gender, title, scores of emergency knowledge and experience of emergency tour were the influencing factors.