JOB MOTIVATION AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG HEALTH PROFFESSIONALS IN GOVERNMENT HEALTH INSTITUTIONS OF SOUTH GONDAR ZONE

Abstract

Introduction: Health professionals are immensely essential in any health care delivery system especially to meet the health related millennium development goals and Growth and Transformation Plans .Although work motivation is essential and very crucial for successful health service delivery there was no study that documented the motivation of health professionals in the study area. Objective: the purpose of this study was to assess the level of job motivation and associated factors among health professionals in government health service delivery institutions in South Gondar Adminstrative Zone Northwest, Ethiopia Methods: Institution based cross sectional study supplemented with qualitative study was used among 406 health professionals from April to May 2014.Simple randm sampling technique was used to select the study participants. For in-depth interviews, seven health professionals were purposively selected. After screening for inclusion criteria.Data was collected using pretested and structured selfadministered questionnaire. Descriptive statistics was used to summarize variables like socio-demographics. Both Bivariate and multi variable logistic regression model were used to identify factors predicting job motivation.The result were presented using odds ratio with 95% confidence interval . P-value less than 0.05 were taken as stastically significant. Results; The overall response rate was about 96.2%.The proportion of motivated health professional was 47.8%. Best interdisciplinary collaboration between different professionals (AOR 95% CI: 2.002 [1.242-3.225]) and interest of professionals/Pride/ to work (AOR 95% CI: 2.102(1.351—3.271) were significantly associated factors of job motivation. Conclusion and Recommendation: Motivation of health professionals working in South Gondar Zone was found to be low. Therefore South Gondar Zone and the respective woredas should look into ways of enhancing motivation status of health professionals by supporting team work, participation in professional associations and using locally appropriate motivation strategies such as informal work groups to develop common language and preparing health institutions to be attractive for health professionals improve interest of professionals to work.