Abstract

Many and frequent occurrence of natural disasters in Taiwan is prone to cause natural disaster stricken areas. When disaster incident that the first important is life safety. Health is the anti-disaster relief work in saving lives and maintaining healthy important part, since the 921 earthquake, highlighting the hospitals play a key role in disaster prevention and rescue system. The resilience of medical service workers have known from the literature since this study to explore the driving force behind the continuing work of the medical services personnel, as well as the 921 earthquake in their life, to understand the factors that influence medical service workers disaster resilience and associated. In this study, the central region of regional hospital for the study of the field after 921 earthquakes still serving medical service workers the research object, using mixed research methods, the main purpose is to explore the impact disaster resilience of the medical service workers. Depth interviews with a total of 15 participators, qualitative data analysis software ATLAS.ti coding, cross-case analysis, identify disaster resilience, marked between each encoding related. Quantitative research to a total of 249 valid questionnaires, statistical analysis software PASW of descriptive statistical analysis, such as the percentage of the mean, standard deviation, and inferential statistics, correlation analysis, t-test and ANOVA. The Qualitative Research results found that the disaster resilience of factors affect their disaster experience of natural disasters, disaster preparedness, trust, professional training, a sense of responsibility, religious beliefs, social support, to help others, and self-growth. Quantitative research results found that age and department, personal growth, religious beliefs, social support, and help others subscale and Disaster Resilience Scale showed a significant difference in the level of education is significant in social support, to help others subscale and Disaster Resilience Scale differences, and ethnic self-growth subscales significant differences, significant differences in family structure in the social support subscale, significant differences of religious belief in the subscale of religious belief. Finally, discussions and recommendations as to the future to enhance the quality of disaster medicine, as well as enhance the resilience of the base of disaster prevention for relief worker.

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