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To Assess Attitude Level Among Different Cadres of Hospital Staff Regarding Disaster Preparedness at Navi Mumbai Region
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In Today’s, digital era of 21st century, we often come across news highlighting all sorts of natural as well as man-made disasters. The victims need hospitals as most important shelters for refuge. Hospital provides care for sick with the help of its doctors, nurses and staff members. It is vital for hospital to be safe from disasters; hence hospital disaster preparedness is very important subject. As per Indian Disaster Management Act, 2005, hospital staff training is mandatory for all hospitals. This is the need of the hour. Many studies have contributed in the field of disaster preparedness however very limited studies are conducted for Navi Mumbai region.
The present study is planned to assess the Attitude level of the hospital staff regarding disaster preparedness. Ten selected hospitals of Navi Mumbai region representing corporate, teaching and government hospitals were included in the study for the evaluation of objectives. Samples of 150 hospital staffs were surveyed for the present study. For finding out the association or nonassociation between the relevant variables, T-Test, ANNOVA was used.
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