International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review
 

International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review

Vol. 5(2), pp. 48-61. April, 2017.

ISSN: 2360-7866

DOI: 10.14662/IJARER2017.006

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Conceptualizing Data in Analyzing Occupational Hazards among Health Workers in Specialist Hospitals, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

AMIETUBODIE, SOTONYE PATIENCE

Medical Unit, Rivers State House of Assembly, Port Harcourt. Nigeria

Accepted 24 March 2017

The study conceptualized data in analyzing occupational hazards among health workers in specialist hospitals, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Nigeria. A total of 470 health workers participated in the study. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select the subjects. A validated 45-item instrument titled Correlates of Occupational Hazards among Health Workers in Specialist Hospitals (COHHWSH) was used for data collection. Cronbach alpha was used to determine the reliability of the instrument to obtain an index of 0.83 for the entire instrument. Eight research questions and eight hypotheses guided the investigation. Data collected where coded for analysis using SPSS version 21 and Eviews statistical packages. Descriptive statistics of percentage and mean were used to analyze the demographic data and research question 7 and 8. Furthermore, Linear Regression Analysis was used to answer and test research questions and hypotheses (1 to 6) and ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses 7 and 8 at .05 alpha levels. Findings established that infrastructure and staff attitude are positive significant predictors of occupational hazards, remuneration, personnel, working environment and management style were not significant predictors of occupational hazards among health workers; Age and working experience do not significantly influence occupational hazards among staff. It was therefore recommended that level of infrastructure in hospitals should be improved for the efficient delivery of duties of health workers and health workers should try to develop positive attitude towards duties because a positive attitude to work is likely to lead to reduced occupational hazard among others.

Key Words: Conceptualization, Occupational hazards, Health Workers, Specialist Hospitals
 

Cite This Article As: AMIETUBODIE SP (2017). Conceptualizing Data in Analysing Occupational Hazards among Health Workers in Specialist Hospitals, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Inter. J. Acad. Res. Educ. Rev. 5(2): 48-61
 

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