Assessment of community capacity building ability of health promotion workers in public health centers.
OBJECTIVE
This study was performed to assess the community capacity building ability of health promotion workers of public health centers and to identify influential factors to the ability.


METHODS
The subjects were 43 public officers from 16 public health centers in Busan Metropolitan City. Questionnaire was developed based on 'Community Capacity Building Tool' of Public Health Agency of Canada which consists of 9 feathers. Each feather of capacity was assessed in 4 point rating scale. Univariate analysis by characteristics of subjects and multivariate analysis by multiple regression was done.


RESULTS
The mean score of the 9 features were 2.35. Among the 9 feathers, 'Obtaining resources' scored 3.0 point which was the highest but 'Community structure' scored 2.1 which was the lowest. The mean score of the feathers was relatively lower than that of Canadian data. The significant influential factors affecting community capacity building ability were 'Service length', 'Heath promotion skill level', 'Existence of an executive department' and 'Cooperative partnership for health promotion'. According to the result of multiple linear regression, the 'Existence of an executive department' had significant influence.


CONCLUSIONS
Community capacity building ability of subjects showed relatively lower scores in general. Building and activating an executive department and cooperative partnerships for health promotion may be helpful to achieve community capacity building ability.
Kim
Jung Min
JM
Department of Preventive Medicine, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
Koh
Kwang Wook
KW
Yu
Byeng Chul
BC
Jeon
Man Joong
MJ
Kim
Yoon Ji
YJ
Kim
Yun Hee
YH
D000328:Adult; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003150:Community Health Workers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D005376:Financial Management; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007723:Korea; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011635:Public Health Administration