Zhongguo quanke yixue (Nov 2024)

Construction of an Evaluation Index System for Competency of Healthcare Social Workers in Beijing from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Taking the Healthcare Social Work Team of T Hospital as an Example

  • WANG Hongmei, ZHANG Lei, WANG Kexia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12114/j.issn.1007-9572.2023.0210
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 31
pp. 3926 – 3932

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Background The rapid development of healthcare social work in policy and practice in Beijing, especially since the COVID-19 epidemic, urgently calls for a competence-based evaluation system. Objective This study is to develop a competence-based index system for the training and evaluation of professional healthcare social workers at an institutional and regional level from an interdisciplinary perspective. Methods From August to November 2022, a one-to-one half structured interview was conducted with snowball sampling among 21 members of an interdisciplinary healthcare social work team in T hospital and surrounding communities in Beijing, a focus interview was conducted among the healthcare social workers, and the interview outlines were formulated based on the Spencers' Iceberg Model. Subject analysis method was used to analyze the data, extract the themes of competency for construction of evaluation index system of T hospital. From November to December 2022, a total of 10 experts in healthcare social work practice were invited by using purposive sampling method to imolement the Fuzzy Delphi and form the Beijing competency evaluation system of healthcare social workers. Results (1) A evaluation index system for competency of healthcare social workers in T hospital was formed through qualitive method, including 4 first-level indexes, 16 second-level indexes and 97 third-level indexes. (2) A total of 2 rounds of Fuzzy Delphi were conducted. The enthusiasm coefficient was 100%. According to S1=8.30 and S2=7.00, a revised index system of T hospital and Beijing were respectively formed. Conclusion This study has constructed an evaluation index system for competency of healthcare social workers in Beijing, which covers 4 first-level indexes, 14 second-level indexes and 73 third-level indexes, from the perspective of interdisciplinary including social work, medicine, nursing and community governance.

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