Assessment of Factors Affectingmotivation of Health Care Providersworking in Public Heath Centers in Addis Ababa
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2015-06
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Addis Abeba Universty
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Back ground: Health systems cannot function effectively without motivated and supportive health
care providers. The level of health care providers’ motivation has been identified as a central in the
quality of health service delivery. In Ethiopia, it is customary hearing about complaints about the
manner service provided especially about its low the quality in general and Public Health Centers
(PHC) in particular. With this assumption, this research is carried out in order to assess the level of
health workers motivation and associated factors with it.
Objectives To describe factors affecting motivation of health care providers working in public
Health Centers ,in Addis Ababa.
Methods Institution based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from February to April
2015among a sample of 384 health care providers selected from 12randomly selected PHCs in
Addis Ababa. The sample size was distributed to each PHC proportional to their total number of
Health care providers. Then, the study subjects were selected by using simple random sampling
technique. Data was collected using self-administered structured and Data was cleaned and
analyzed the intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors using with SPSS software version 20. A
summary measure was made to characterize the study population. Multiple logistic regression
analysis was used to identify those factors which had significant correlation and to determine those
factors affecting motivation.
Result: Three hundred eighty four participants completed and responded to the questionnaires making a
response rate of hundred percent of these, majority 214(55.7%) were female, 245(63%) were between
21 and 30 years of age, and 230(59.9%) were nurse by profession. Overall, more than the half the
respondents 240 (62.5%) agreed and strongly agreed that there were feel motivated to work hard. In
multivariateanalysis,healthcareprovidermotivationwassignificantlyandpositivelycorrelatedwithsupervisio
n(r=.443,p<0.01),Recognition(r=.386,p<0.01),Management(r=365,p<0.01).Generally,correlationscoeffic
ientbetweensupervisionand motivation (0.44) is strong among the entire variables and significant at 99%
where as work environment has weakest correlation (.149, p<0.01) (0.14) among all variables but
significant at 99%.
Conclusion: Our findings indicate that, more than the half the respondents were feels motivated to work
hard and the main motivating factors of health care providers‘were supervision, recognition and good
management. Therefore, it is importance strengthening intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors to
motivate health care providers at health center level for improving health service quality.
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Assessment of Factors Affectingmotivation of Health Care