Influencing factors for core competence of infection control professionals in Jiangsu Province and association with self-efficacy
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the current status of core competence of the infection control professional,ana-lyze the influencing factors and observe the association with self-efficacy.METHODS A total of 431 infection con-trol professionals were recruited from the medial institutions in Zhenjiang,Changzhou and Yancheng of Jiangsu Province.The questionnaire survey was conducted by using baseline questionnaire,questionnaire for competence of infection control professionals and general self-efficacy scale.RESULTS The result of univariate analysis showed that the age,nature of hospital,hospital grade,scale of hospital(number of beds),title,years of working,per-sonal income,engagement of further study,number of times of participating infection control meetings in each year,support for infection control from the hospital and atmosphere of infection control had remarkable effect on the core competence of the infection control professionals(P＜0.05).The result of multivariate analysis indicated that the age,scale of hospital(number of beds),atmosphere of infection control,years of engaging for infection control,times of participating infection control meetings in each year and the hospital's support for infection con-trol were the influencing factors for the core competence of the infection control professionals,and 86.5％of the total variation of core competence of the infection control professionals could be explained in total.The result of Spearman correlation analysis showed there was medium positive correlation between the self-efficacy and the total score of core competence and dimensions(rs=0.4521-0.5770,P＜0.0001).CONCLUSION The core competence of the infection control professionals of Jiangsu Province is at a high level,however,the professional structure of the teams needs to be optimized,the capability of risk prediction for nosocomial infection and the ability of devel-opment of infection control need to be further improved.It is necessary for the medical institutions to reinforce the support for the infection control,and intensify the construction of system and connotation so as to continuously boost the core competence of the infection control professionals.
Nosocomial infection prevention and control professionalCore competenceNosocomial infectionSelf-efficacyInfluencing factorJiangsu
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