Table 5 Health professionals agreed to an attitude section test based on their educational and experience level categories
Educational level | Experience period | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Disaster management attitude related questions | Total | Graduate | Post graduate | P value | Less than 5 years | 5 – 10 years | More than 10 years | P value | |
Q12 | Disaster training in country. | 451 (84.9) | 295 (83.4) | 156 (88.1) | 0.145 | 218 (82.9) | 148 (84.6) | 85 (91.4) | 0.141 |
Q13 | Disaster training in facility | 438 (82.5) | 284 (80.3) | 154 (87.0) | 0.053 | 211 (80.2) | 149 (85.1) | 78 (83.9) | 0.385 |
Q14 | Availability of emergency plan | 377 (71.0) | 241 (68.1) | 136 (76.8) | 0.036* | 184 (70.0) | 118 (67.4 | 75 (80.6) | 0.066 |
Q15 | Disaster management committee | 340 (64.0) | 209 (59.0) | 131 (74.0) | 0.001* | 161 (61.2) | 118 (67.4) | 61 (65.6) | 0.391 |
Q16 | Roles and responsibility | 411 (77.4) | 265 (74.9) | 146 (82.5) | 0.048* | 197 (74.9) | 144 (82.3) | 70 (75.3) | 0.168 |
Q17 | Hand on exercises vs lectures in disaster training | 440 (82.9) | 279 (78.8) | 161 (90.9) | < 0.001* | 203 (77.2) | 152 (86.9) | 85 (91.4) | 0.002* |