Factors Influencing Crisis Management and Preventive COVID-19 Practices during COVID-19 Pandemic of Primary School Teachers in Aojiang Town, China
Keywords:
Crisis Management, COVID-19, Primary school teacheAbstract
COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergence of international concern that never been before. Teachers have to manage crisis. The primary school teachers in China have more relationships with community than secondary schools or universities. Hence, the COVID-19 crisis management of primary school teachers are important. The aims of this research are to examine COVID-19 crisis management with identify influencing factors during COVID-19 pandemic in Aojiang town, China. The sample size was calculated, totally 300 primary school teachers from a total of 547 teachers from the 8 primary schools were selected by proportional stratified random sampling. Cross-sectional survey study was employed for the research. The questionnaire was tested for validity by 3 experts with IOC more than 0.5 and reliability by 30 secondary school teachers with Chronbach’s alpha of 0.84. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Chi-square test and multiple regression by SPSS. The findings were the high COVID-19 crisis management of primary teachers. The factors influencing COVID-19 crisis management were perception and knowledge. The suggestion was schools should promote COVID-19 crisis management to make perceptions and increase knowledge.
Keywords: Crisis Management, COVID-19, Primary school teacher
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