Abstract
The hospital staff need to be competent to utilize the disaster plan to cope up with an emergency situation. Therefore, the present study has aimed to assess the knowledge of hospital staff of Dhahran Al Janoub General Hospital regarding the disaster management during Hazm Storm Support 1436/2015 in Saudi Arabia. The study has employed quantitative research design to assess the disaster management of hospital staff by recruiting 84 individuals (physicians, nurses, technicians, officers, and housekeepers) from Dhahran Al Janoub General Hospital. A questionnaire was given to respondents to gather information about disaster management. The obtained data was analysed using SPSS through chi-square analysis. The study results clearly depicted that the hospital staff with fewer years of experience had lesser knowledge about the disaster assessment as compared to the experienced employees. There was no statistically significant relationship identified between different job categories in the hospital and the level of knowledge about presence or absence of the emergency response plan. However, there was a statistically significant association found between different job professions and level of awareness regarding presence or absence of hospital command centres. The study concluded that the knowledge of emergency preparedness among the hospital staff was moderate and the hospital staff should participate and seek opportunities to prepare assessment for disaster management.
Highlights
Disaster is considered as an unpredicted, sudden, and overwhelming event, which results in significant physical change, destruction, drastic environmental change, and loss of life (Lurie et al, 2013) It causes disruptions in the functioning of a society or community through widespread human, economic, and environmental losses
The results showed that Hospital Disaster Life Support (HDLS) course tends to provide multiple modalities for training the hospital staff and increase their knowledge level
Low acquaintance about communication was observed among the nurses concerning the disaster preparedness (Inglesby, 2011)
Summary
Disaster is considered as an unpredicted, sudden, and overwhelming event, which results in significant physical change, destruction, drastic environmental change, and loss of life (Lurie et al, 2013) It causes disruptions in the functioning of a society or community through widespread human, economic, and environmental losses. It decreases the ability of affected society or community to cope up by utilizing the available resources. Disasters negatively affect health of a population, along with potential damage and disruption of infrastructure It leads to long-term detrimental effects causing erosion of social development and loss of valuable assets. The present study has assessed the knowledge regarding disaster management during Hazm Storm Support 1436/2015 by recruiting employees of Dhahran Al Janoub General Hospital
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