Desire for emigration and its relationship with social capital among nurses working in teaching hospitals in Golestan, Iran

Objective: Nurses are the main group of care providers in healthcare institutions. The migration of nurses is worrying and has reached an alarming point in recent years. This study was conducted to determine the willingness of nurses to migrate and to assess its relationship with social capital. Met...

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Main Authors: Alireza Heidari, Maryam Shah Bahrami, Farideh Koochak, Zahra Khatirnamani
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Published: Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research 2023-06-01
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Online Access:http://payeshjournal.ir/article-1-1990-en.pdf
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author Alireza Heidari
Maryam Shah Bahrami
Farideh Koochak
Zahra Khatirnamani
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Maryam Shah Bahrami
Farideh Koochak
Zahra Khatirnamani
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description Objective: Nurses are the main group of care providers in healthcare institutions. The migration of nurses is worrying and has reached an alarming point in recent years. This study was conducted to determine the willingness of nurses to migrate and to assess its relationship with social capital. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The statistical population was all the nurses working in educational and therapeutic hospitals of Gorgan, Iran in 2021. After random stratified sampling, 503 nurses were included in the study Data were collected by Chub Basti's Desire to Emigrate Questionnaire and Putnam's Social Capital Questionnaire. The data was analyzed with the help of descriptive and inferential statistics methods in SPSS-24 software and significance level was set at 0.05. Results: The overall score of the questionnaire of willingness to migrate (0.67 ± 0.16) was relatively higher than the average level. The greatest impact on the desire to migrate was related to the dimensions of pull factors or attraction of the origin, push or repulsion factors of the origin, pull factors or attraction of the destination, and finally related to the dimension of the desire to migrate. The average score of social capital was 2.98 ± 0.56. The general score of willingness to migrate and all its dimensions had an inverse and significant relationship with the overall score of social capital and its dimensions so that as social capital and its dimensions’ decreased, the desire to migrate was increased. Conclusion: With the reduction of social capital in the nurses, the desire to migrate increases. To reduce the desire to migrate abroad, the need for increasing social and institutional trust through proper performance and solving structural problems seems essential.
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spelling doaj.art-4b9119faf95c4f2e8f7e6623a0bb74162023-06-06T04:43:32ZfasIranian Institute for Health Sciences ResearchPayesh1680-76262008-45362023-06-01223301312Desire for emigration and its relationship with social capital among nurses working in teaching hospitals in Golestan, IranAlireza Heidari0Maryam Shah Bahrami1Farideh Koochak2Zahra Khatirnamani3 Health Management and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran Health Management and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran Health Management and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran Health Management and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran Objective: Nurses are the main group of care providers in healthcare institutions. The migration of nurses is worrying and has reached an alarming point in recent years. This study was conducted to determine the willingness of nurses to migrate and to assess its relationship with social capital. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The statistical population was all the nurses working in educational and therapeutic hospitals of Gorgan, Iran in 2021. After random stratified sampling, 503 nurses were included in the study Data were collected by Chub Basti's Desire to Emigrate Questionnaire and Putnam's Social Capital Questionnaire. The data was analyzed with the help of descriptive and inferential statistics methods in SPSS-24 software and significance level was set at 0.05. Results: The overall score of the questionnaire of willingness to migrate (0.67 ± 0.16) was relatively higher than the average level. The greatest impact on the desire to migrate was related to the dimensions of pull factors or attraction of the origin, push or repulsion factors of the origin, pull factors or attraction of the destination, and finally related to the dimension of the desire to migrate. The average score of social capital was 2.98 ± 0.56. The general score of willingness to migrate and all its dimensions had an inverse and significant relationship with the overall score of social capital and its dimensions so that as social capital and its dimensions’ decreased, the desire to migrate was increased. Conclusion: With the reduction of social capital in the nurses, the desire to migrate increases. To reduce the desire to migrate abroad, the need for increasing social and institutional trust through proper performance and solving structural problems seems essential.http://payeshjournal.ir/article-1-1990-en.pdfmigrationdesire to emigratesocial capitalnursehospital
spellingShingle Alireza Heidari
Maryam Shah Bahrami
Farideh Koochak
Zahra Khatirnamani
Desire for emigration and its relationship with social capital among nurses working in teaching hospitals in Golestan, Iran
Payesh
migration
desire to emigrate
social capital
nurse
hospital
title Desire for emigration and its relationship with social capital among nurses working in teaching hospitals in Golestan, Iran
title_full Desire for emigration and its relationship with social capital among nurses working in teaching hospitals in Golestan, Iran
title_fullStr Desire for emigration and its relationship with social capital among nurses working in teaching hospitals in Golestan, Iran
title_full_unstemmed Desire for emigration and its relationship with social capital among nurses working in teaching hospitals in Golestan, Iran
title_short Desire for emigration and its relationship with social capital among nurses working in teaching hospitals in Golestan, Iran
title_sort desire for emigration and its relationship with social capital among nurses working in teaching hospitals in golestan iran
topic migration
desire to emigrate
social capital
nurse
hospital
url http://payeshjournal.ir/article-1-1990-en.pdf
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