The purpose of this study was to investigate the general characteristics of naval medical petty officers in warships without naval surgeons and analyze tile performance, significance and difficulty of Health duty by rank and warship size. The results ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the general characteristics of naval medical petty officers in warships without naval surgeons and analyze tile performance, significance and difficulty of Health duty by rank and warship size. The results of this study are as follows. First, the analysis of general characteristics shows that the number of chief petty officers was 35 (43.8%), the number of those aged 30 and over and under 40 were 30 (37.5%), and the number of those who attending or graduated from high school and junior college was 48 (60%). Second, the difference in Health performance, Health significance and difficulty of Health duty by rank was not all statistically significant. Third, the difference in Health performance of Health duty by warship size was found to be significant only in the Health duty of ‘prevention responsibility.’ The Health performance of ‘prevention responsibility` was significantly low in third class warships as opposed to first class warships, second class warships and other support warships.