Risk Perception on Medical Waste among Hospital Employee— A Case Study of the District Hospitals in Chia-yi Area

• Main Authors: Hui-chin Chuang, 莊惠勤
• Other Authors: Chung-chiang Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68651557887489269374

碩士 === 南華大學 === 環境管理研究所 === 91 === 　　The generation of medical waste has been increasing significantly recently and become a terrible job to dispose it as its composition has diversified and complicated. Therefore, hospital employee perceived more risky than ever before, and much concerned with the potential health loss than environmental damage arising from medical waste. Under such a circumstance, it is our attempt to understand employee risk perception with medical waste and consequently refer the results as control variables for environmental management in hospital. 　 　　In general, governments release information about danger awareness through television, playbill, sheet, pamphlet, etc, to achieve the result of propaganda. Similarly, hospital managements will provide employee with related information to direct employee behavior. It is required to analyze the factors that affect employee risk perception and behavior. This is the main purpose of this thesis. Totally 362 samples were drawn out from employee in three regional hospital in Chia-yi by stratified sampling technique, data were analyzed by SAS. The major results include: (1) there are significant discrepancy of hospital employees’ seniority and sex in the risk perceptions of radioactive waste; (2) the risk perception of medical waste for medical employees can be explained by factor space diagram; (3) large proportion of hospital employees who got the medical waste signals of communication channels are mainly on newspaper, television (mass communication) and colleagues (interpersonal communication); (4) the key region of medical waste signals received by different section employees: Physicians from various specialties via the discussion between teachers and students; Nurses via seminars and colleagues; Technicians via magazines and newsletters; Administrations via newspaper. Male employees have higher than college degree via magazines and newspaper. While female employees have the same record via newsletters; (5) employees who got the medical waste signals from newspaper and friends have higher risk perception, but from television have lower risk perception. 　 　　In the end of the study, the author suggest that hospital management should examine the relation between employee risk perceptions of medical waste in different departments, and take some measures to direct employee behavior by taking use of different communication channels. More information release with less barrier may reduce or affect employee risk perception and could be beneficial to administrative management.