Investigating the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villages
Background: Settlement in a village and being native is one of the special conditions for choosing to be a health care worker as they must be accessible day and night and provide people with health services when needed. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting health care worke...
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| author | Tayebeh Rakhshani Mohammad Fararouei Touba Kianizadeh Amirhossein Kamyab Ali Khani Jeihooni |
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| description | Background: Settlement in a village and being native is one of the special conditions for choosing to be a health care worker as they must be accessible day and night and provide people with health services when needed. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villages covered by Jundishapur University, Ahvaz, Iran. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study in 2019. The total number of health workers working at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Iran was 1034, amongst whom 280 individuals participated in this study. The data collection tool was a questionnaire consisted of two parts, in the first part of which there were 11 questions on personal information of the participants. In the second part, a total of six measures (physical, social, educational and cultural, occupational, welfare, personal and family) were used to examine the factors affecting the health workers’ intention to remain in rural areas. Results: The results of this study showed that the current residence of 55% of the health workers was villages while 45% of them lived in urban areas. The results indicated that there was a significant relationship between physical, social, educational and cultural, occupational, welfare, personal and family factors and the health workers’ intention to remain in rural areas. Besides, female HCWs were more affected by personal and family factors compared to the male participants. Conclusion: Increasing the quality and paying more attention to physical, social, educational and cultural, occupational, welfare, personal and family factors can cause health workers to remain longer in rural areas. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-18336709e9494228b44d7ce2a7bd19f12023-04-29T14:57:04ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402023-04-0194e15542Investigating the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villagesTayebeh Rakhshani0Mohammad Fararouei1Touba Kianizadeh2Amirhossein Kamyab3Ali Khani Jeihooni4Nutrition Research Center, Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranHIV/AIDS Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranDepartment of Public Health, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Fars, IranDepartment of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, IranNutrition Research Center, Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; Corresponding author.Background: Settlement in a village and being native is one of the special conditions for choosing to be a health care worker as they must be accessible day and night and provide people with health services when needed. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villages covered by Jundishapur University, Ahvaz, Iran. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study in 2019. The total number of health workers working at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Iran was 1034, amongst whom 280 individuals participated in this study. The data collection tool was a questionnaire consisted of two parts, in the first part of which there were 11 questions on personal information of the participants. In the second part, a total of six measures (physical, social, educational and cultural, occupational, welfare, personal and family) were used to examine the factors affecting the health workers’ intention to remain in rural areas. Results: The results of this study showed that the current residence of 55% of the health workers was villages while 45% of them lived in urban areas. The results indicated that there was a significant relationship between physical, social, educational and cultural, occupational, welfare, personal and family factors and the health workers’ intention to remain in rural areas. Besides, female HCWs were more affected by personal and family factors compared to the male participants. Conclusion: Increasing the quality and paying more attention to physical, social, educational and cultural, occupational, welfare, personal and family factors can cause health workers to remain longer in rural areas.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023027494Effective factorsIntention to remainHealth care workerVillageJob satisfaction |
| spellingShingle | Tayebeh Rakhshani Mohammad Fararouei Touba Kianizadeh Amirhossein Kamyab Ali Khani Jeihooni Investigating the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villages Heliyon Effective factors Intention to remain Health care worker Village Job satisfaction |
| title | Investigating the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villages |
| title_full | Investigating the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villages |
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| title_short | Investigating the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villages |
| title_sort | investigating the factors affecting health care workers intention to remain in villages |
| topic | Effective factors Intention to remain Health care worker Village Job satisfaction |
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