Responsiveness of Local Health Security Committee to Local Health Security Fund in Phuket Province

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This research aimed to describe responsiveness to the local health security fund, and explain predicting factors of the responsiveness of the local health security committee in Phuket Province. All of 280 committee members were recruited. Data collection was performed using questionnaire. The content validity of the instrument was tested by three experts. The reliability test of the knowledge questionnaire on local health security fund using Kuder-Richardson method yielding a value of 0.95; whereas the perceived benefit, perceived role of the committee, and the responsiveness of the committees using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were 0.90, 0.88, 0.95 respectively. The descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis were in data analysis.This research aimed to describe responsiveness to the local health security fund, and explain predicting factors of the responsiveness of the local health security committee in Phuket Province. All of 280 committee members were recruited. Data collection was performed using questionnaire. The content validity of the instrument was tested by three experts. The reliability test of the knowledge questionnaire on local health security fund using Kuder-Richardson method yielding a value of 0.95; whereas the perceived benefit, perceived role of the committee, and the responsiveness of the committees using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were 0.90, 0.88, 0.95 respectively. The descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis were in data analysis. The results revealed that the level of responsiveness of the local health security committee to the local health security fund in Phuket Province was at a high level (  = 2.34, S.D. = 0.40). Three predicting factors of the responsiveness of the committee were perceived benefit of the local health security fund, perceived role of the committee and sufficiency of the committee numbers that collectively explained 51% of the variance (adjusted  = .51, p < 0.05). The perceived benefit of the local health security fund was found to be the best predictor of the committee responsiveness (adjusted  = .47, p < 0.05). Recommendations to assure the local health security committee on the benefit of the local health security fund were made as the first priority. In addition, supportive plans on increasing their role perception and managing the manpower were proposed