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RWA scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency

The article discussed the development of the 'Ready, Willing and Able' (RWA) Scale for the use of Malaysia healthcare personnel involved in radiation emergency focusing on medical response team only. Usually the members of medical emergency response team are doctors, medical assistances, n...

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Main Authors: Salleh, Siti Hasliah, Mohamed Yusof, Nor Ashikin, Saimy, Intan Sazrina, Ismail, Fadillah
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Language:English
Published: Perdana Centre UTM 2020
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87245/1/SitiHasliahSalleh2020_RWAScaleofPreparednessforHealthcarePersonnel.pdf
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spelling my.utm.872452020-10-31T12:27:03Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87245/ RWA scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency Salleh, Siti Hasliah Mohamed Yusof, Nor Ashikin Saimy, Intan Sazrina Ismail, Fadillah T Technology (General) The article discussed the development of the 'Ready, Willing and Able' (RWA) Scale for the use of Malaysia healthcare personnel involved in radiation emergency focusing on medical response team only. Usually the members of medical emergency response team are doctors, medical assistances, nurses and hospital attendances. The scale is based on RWA framework by McCabe et al., with necessary modification to fit the local circumstances. It is to improve public health emergency preparedness system. The study is exploratory in nature as it investigates factors of each RWA construct. The scale is expected to reveal the level and profile of preparedness behaviour amongst personnel. The scale is insightful in offering guidance to healthcare providers on the development of possible educational and training programmes. These programmes are essential to motivate personnel in providing medical emergency response before the real radiation emergency strikes. Results of the study demonstrate eleven sub- constructs and multiple items of the RWA Scale. The study shall put forward some recommendation to ensure the validity of measurement scale. Perdana Centre UTM 2020-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87245/1/SitiHasliahSalleh2020_RWAScaleofPreparednessforHealthcarePersonnel.pdf Salleh, Siti Hasliah and Mohamed Yusof, Nor Ashikin and Saimy, Intan Sazrina and Ismail, Fadillah (2020) RWA scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency. Journal Of Science, Technology And Innovation Policy, 6 (1). pp. 1-7. ISSN 2550-2018 http://www.jostip.org/index.php/jostip/article/view/105
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Salleh, Siti Hasliah
Mohamed Yusof, Nor Ashikin
Saimy, Intan Sazrina
Ismail, Fadillah
RWA scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency
description The article discussed the development of the 'Ready, Willing and Able' (RWA) Scale for the use of Malaysia healthcare personnel involved in radiation emergency focusing on medical response team only. Usually the members of medical emergency response team are doctors, medical assistances, nurses and hospital attendances. The scale is based on RWA framework by McCabe et al., with necessary modification to fit the local circumstances. It is to improve public health emergency preparedness system. The study is exploratory in nature as it investigates factors of each RWA construct. The scale is expected to reveal the level and profile of preparedness behaviour amongst personnel. The scale is insightful in offering guidance to healthcare providers on the development of possible educational and training programmes. These programmes are essential to motivate personnel in providing medical emergency response before the real radiation emergency strikes. Results of the study demonstrate eleven sub- constructs and multiple items of the RWA Scale. The study shall put forward some recommendation to ensure the validity of measurement scale.
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author Salleh, Siti Hasliah
Mohamed Yusof, Nor Ashikin
Saimy, Intan Sazrina
Ismail, Fadillah
author_facet Salleh, Siti Hasliah
Mohamed Yusof, Nor Ashikin
Saimy, Intan Sazrina
Ismail, Fadillah
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title RWA scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency
title_short RWA scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency
title_full RWA scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency
title_fullStr RWA scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency
title_full_unstemmed RWA scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency
title_sort rwa scale of preparedness for healthcare personnel towards radiation emergency
publisher Perdana Centre UTM
publishDate 2020
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87245/1/SitiHasliahSalleh2020_RWAScaleofPreparednessforHealthcarePersonnel.pdf
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