Quality of Life of the Royal Thai Navy College of Nursing’s Personnel

Suwapak VESAMAVIBOOL

doi:10.48048/wjst.2019.3897

Authors

Suwapak VESAMAVIBOOL The Royal Thai Navy College of Nursing, Department Naval Medical, Bangkok 10600

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48048/wjst.2019.3897

Keywords:

Quality of life, Royal Thai Navy

Abstract

This was a descriptive research aiming at investigating the quality of life of the Royal Thai Navy College of Nursing’s (RTNCN) personnel. There were 325 samples which were from the executives, nursing instructors, supporting staff and nursing students in the academic year 2014. The research tool was the World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment (WHOQOL - BRIEF - THAI) and the reliability of which was tested using the Cronbach’s Alpha with the result at 0.91. The statistics applied in this study were descriptive statistic. The results were as follows: 1) The Quality of Life in the aspects of physical health, psychological state, environment and overview of Quality of Life were mainly at moderate level (66.77, 54.77, 45.54, 75.38 and 57.85 percent respectively); and 2) Analyzing the Mean, it was found that QOL in all aspects of the personnel was at moderate level.

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Author Biography

Suwapak VESAMAVIBOOL, The Royal Thai Navy College of Nursing, Department Naval Medical, Bangkok 10600

Commander Suwapak Vesamavibool is a nurse instructor at Rpyal Thai Navy College of Nursing (RTNCN). Graduate Ph.D in Education administration and specialty in Psychiatric Nursing.

Current position is Head of Research and Plan Development department of RTNCN.

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