Publications by authors named "Somjai Sirakamon"

Intent to stay is a helpful indicator in predicting the turnover rate of nursing faculty members in academia. This descriptive, cross-sectional study aimed to identify the factors influencing nursing faculty members' intent to stay. The sample consisted of 350 nursing faculty members randomly selected from 53 nursing and midwifery training schools in Myanmar.

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Factors influencing work-life balance of regional hospital nurses are different from other professions. This study aimed to develop an instrument to measure work-life balance, and examine its psychometric properties. Psychometric properties were tested with content validity, construct validity using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and reliability with 598 professional nurses recruited using multi-stage sampling.

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Objectives: A surgical safety checklist has been a globally implemented and mandated adoption in several countries. However, its use is not mandatory in Thailand. This study aimed to evaluate the perceptions of surgical personnel on surgical complications and safety and to examine the satisfaction and barriers of surgical safety checklist implementation.

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Background: In-depth information on the success and failure of implementing the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist (SSC) has been questioned in non-native English-speaking countries. This study explored the experiences of SSC implementation and documented barriers and strategies to improve SSC implementation.

Methods: A qualitative study was performed in 33 Thai hospitals.

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Universities can make a significant contribution to improve population health through encouraging faculty members and universities to focus on health promotion, using a health-promoting framework. This qualitative study explored factors influencing the development of a health-promoting nursing faculty in a Thai university. Data were collected via in-depth interviews of 15 nursing academics and four academic support staff, and fieldwork observations.

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