ABSTRACT

Here in this study, we both claimed to evaluate the level of knowledge of the disaster relief team about the ingredient of the Dokuz Eylül University Medical Faculty Hospital Disaster Plan and affecting factors. The data was collected via the questionnaire and was realized face-to-face interviews among 140 volunteers, from September to October 2016. The gender of 140 individuals of the disaster team who participated in this study; 67 women, 73 men and their ages were between 25 to 58. The level of knowledge of 57.9% of participants was insufficient, 42.1% was sufficient. There was a meaningful difference between attendees of the study on behalf of attending the following courses and their level of knowledge (hospital disaster planning course (p=0.001), basic disaster awareness course (p=0.001), fire course (p=0.028), CBRN course (p=0.008) and disaster drills (p=0.056). It is clear that, knowledge level of participants was significantly higher who formerly attended certain course and disaster drills. Consequently, we decided that selection of the staff that will be in charge of hospital disaster plan should be on voluntary basis and performing both the drills and courses more often should be enable to increase the level of knowledge about the hospital disaster plans. By the way, at the end of our study we concluded that, both disaster preparedness training courses and drills should be augmented before the disaster strikes. Keywords: Disaster, Disaster Management, Hospital Disaster Plan