Recent years have seen novel respiratory infectious diseases impose significant health and economic burdens in China. Community health service centers play a crucial role in managing and preventing these diseases. As such, it is imperative that medical staff at these centers develop specific emergency health capabilities to handle the increasing challenges posed by respiratory disease prevention and control. Yet, research into the emergency capabilities of community medical staff for respiratory diseases and their influencing factors remains limited.

To explore and analyze the different dimensions of the emergency response capacities of community medical staff in respiratory infectious diseases, and to explore the related factors, so as to provide a basis for the evaluation and training of the health emergency response capacities of community medical staff in respiratory infectious diseases.

In November 2023, a staged convenience sampling method was used to select three districts, Xicheng District, Fengtai District, and Daxing District from the central, urban, and suburban regions of Beijing, and three community health service centers from each district, with about 50 medical staff recruited from each of the community health service centers as the survey respondents. A self-designed questionnaire on health emergency capacities of community medical staff for respiratory infectious diseases was used for this survey.

A total of 509 community medical staff were surveyed in this study, and 507 valid questionnaires were obtained after excluding 2 questionnaires in which the survey respondents' department was a non-operational department or these content of the work was not related to the department's business. The results of the survey showed that the average score of the health emergency response capacities of health care workers in community health service centers in Beijing was (0.598±0.136). Of the 2 primary indicators, the healthcare workers scored (0.602±0.152) for response capabilities and (0.590±0.173) for knowledge preparation. The results of multiple linear regression analyses showed that doctors (β=0.322, P<0.001), senior titles (β=0.118, P=0.012), and those who had participated in 6 or more relevant trainings and emergency response drills in the past year (β=0.225, P<0.001) had a higher emergency response capability scores. Medical staff with a clinical medicine background (β=-0.210, P=0.015) had lower emergency response capability scores among medical staff.

The emergency health capacities of community medical staff in Beijing require enhancement. There is a need for intensified training in deficient areas such as "Legal, Regulations and Standards""Monitoring and Early Warning", and "Reporting". Further attention should be directed towards nurses, medical technicians, pharmacists, staff with lower professional titles, and staff less frequently involved in training and emergency drills.