Performance of Health Caregivers in the Eastern Health Center of Ahvaz, Iran, in the Self-Care Program
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Abstract
Background: Human factor has currently become the source of change in organizations. The evaluation of human performance is a practical issue in human resources management and the best way to obtain information for organizational decision-making.
Objectives: The current study aimed to monitor the performance of health caregivers in the eastern health center of Ahvaz, Iran, in the self-care program.
Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 72 health caregivers in 20 affiliated and 31 non-affiliated health posts in the eastern health center of Ahvaz in 2018. The census sampling method and ministerial checklist were the tools of assessment for the performance measurement of the health caregivers. The checklist consisted of two parts for personal information and technical performance evaluation. The data were analyzed using the t-test and analysis of variance in SPSS software (version 22).
Results: All the participants were female health caregivers. The results showed that there was notanysignificantdifferencebetweenthestudy dimensions with the participants’fieldofstudy (P = 0.798;F = 0.226), academic degree (P value =0.957; t = 0.003), age (P = 0.419; F = 0.955), and work experience (P-value = 0.537; F = 0.627). The health caregiversofthe eastern Ahvaz health center of Ahvaz scored 767.35 out of the total 1,000, indicating that their performance was generally at an acceptable level.
Conclusions: The findings of this study can assist the managers and experts of the health sector in evaluating the performance of health caregivers in their self-care program. For the enhancement of the performance of health caregivers, not only health ambassadors should be identified and trained, but also the dimension of organizational self-care should be reinforced.
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