Job motivation and associated factors among health professionals in government health institution of South Gondar zone, Ethiopia

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 Administrative Zone Northwest, Ethiopia. Methods: Institution- based cross sectional study supplemented with qualitativestudywasusedamong406 health professionals from April to May2014. Simple random 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 self-administered 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 ratiowith95% confidence interval. P-value less than 0.05were taken as statistically significant. Results; The overall response rate was about 96.2%.The proportion of motivated health professional was 47.8%.Bestinterdisciplinary collaboration between different professionals(AOR 95% CI:2.002 [1.242-3.225])and interest of professionals/Pride/ to work(AOR95%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 below. 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.