Does hospital medical staff maintain hospital disaster resilience?
Background/Aim. In the event of a disaster, it is necessary for medical personnel to demonstrate the operational component of disaster resilience, which requires certain knowledge and skills regarding disaster medical response algorithms. The aim of this study was to analyze the preparedness of hosp...
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Military Health Department, Ministry of Defance, Serbia
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| author | Georgieva Mariya Georgieva Kostadinov Rostislav Stefanov Semerdjieva-Filipova Mariya Anastasova |
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| description | Background/Aim. In the event of a disaster, it is necessary for medical personnel to demonstrate the operational component of disaster resilience, which requires certain knowledge and skills regarding disaster medical response algorithms. The aim of this study was to analyze the preparedness of hospital’s healthcare staff for maintaining hospital disaster resilience. Methods. An anonymous survey was conducted from July to September 2019 among 295 medical staff employed in hospitals in the territory of the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pearson’s Chisquare test, Student’s t-test, and graphical analysis were used in the statistical analysis. Results. Most of the medical staff, i.e., 85.8%, believed that disaster drills are not held regularly in hospitals, 30.8% thought that the training period was shorter than two years, and the majority, i.e., 86.1%, did not participate in exercises. Conclusion. Due to the irregular implementation of exercises and the small number of participants in them, the level of preparedness for responding to disasters is not maintained at a high level in hospitals in the Plovdiv region. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce a specific training program and exercise once a year, which should have a beneficial effect on increasing the preparedness of the medical staff for disasters and improving the operational resilience of the hospital. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98d39d1d2fd5482bb771df5e815026142024-04-10T10:28:45ZengMilitary Health Department, Ministry of Defance, SerbiaVojnosanitetski Pregled0042-84502406-07202024-01-01812768010.2298/VSP230727067G0042-84502300067GDoes hospital medical staff maintain hospital disaster resilience?Georgieva Mariya Georgieva0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5108-0846Kostadinov Rostislav Stefanov1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1265-5851Semerdjieva-Filipova Mariya Anastasova2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5339-948XMedical University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Public Health, *Department of Epidemiology and Disaster Medicine, Plovdiv, BulgariaMedical University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Public Health, *Department of Epidemiology and Disaster Medicine, Plovdiv, BulgariaMedical University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Public Health, Department of Health Care Management, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Background/Aim. In the event of a disaster, it is necessary for medical personnel to demonstrate the operational component of disaster resilience, which requires certain knowledge and skills regarding disaster medical response algorithms. The aim of this study was to analyze the preparedness of hospital’s healthcare staff for maintaining hospital disaster resilience. Methods. An anonymous survey was conducted from July to September 2019 among 295 medical staff employed in hospitals in the territory of the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pearson’s Chisquare test, Student’s t-test, and graphical analysis were used in the statistical analysis. Results. Most of the medical staff, i.e., 85.8%, believed that disaster drills are not held regularly in hospitals, 30.8% thought that the training period was shorter than two years, and the majority, i.e., 86.1%, did not participate in exercises. Conclusion. Due to the irregular implementation of exercises and the small number of participants in them, the level of preparedness for responding to disasters is not maintained at a high level in hospitals in the Plovdiv region. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce a specific training program and exercise once a year, which should have a beneficial effect on increasing the preparedness of the medical staff for disasters and improving the operational resilience of the hospital.https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0042-8450/2024/0042-84502300067G.pdfbulgariadisaster planninghospitalspersonnel, hospitalsurveys and questionnaires |
| spellingShingle | Georgieva Mariya Georgieva Kostadinov Rostislav Stefanov Semerdjieva-Filipova Mariya Anastasova Does hospital medical staff maintain hospital disaster resilience? Vojnosanitetski Pregled bulgaria disaster planning hospitals personnel, hospital surveys and questionnaires |
| title | Does hospital medical staff maintain hospital disaster resilience? |
| title_full | Does hospital medical staff maintain hospital disaster resilience? |
| title_fullStr | Does hospital medical staff maintain hospital disaster resilience? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does hospital medical staff maintain hospital disaster resilience? |
| title_short | Does hospital medical staff maintain hospital disaster resilience? |
| title_sort | does hospital medical staff maintain hospital disaster resilience |
| topic | bulgaria disaster planning hospitals personnel, hospital surveys and questionnaires |
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