Assessment of Motivational Status and Associated Factors among health workers in public Hospitals in North Shewa Zone, 2021

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Abstract Background : a health worker were motivated and express job satisfaction if they feel that they were effective at their jobs and performing well. Factors contributing to motivation and job satisfaction also include strong career development, an adequate compensation, and adequate working and living conditions. Objective: Assessment of Motivational Status and Associated Factors among health workers in public Hospitals in North Shewa Zone, 2021/22. Methods: Institutional based cross sectional study design were conducted in four selected Public Hospitalsbased on the trends on the duration of health workers and factors motivating them.The type of study design was employed in this study is a quantitative and qualitative design to KII through survey study. A total of 316 health care providers took part in this study. More than half, 198 (62.7%) of the respondents were females, while 147 (49.7%) of them were in the age range of 25–29 years with mean (SD) age of 29.62 (5.27) with 20 and 54 years of minimum and maximum values.From the total (n=316) of health professionals the prevalence of motivation was 29.7 %. This motivation percentage vary between professions categories from least 9.2 % to highest 25.9% in Midwifery and Nurses health professionals respectively. But others professionals (anesthesia, radiographers, optometric nurse, dentistry and physiotherapist. HIT, MH etc. 29(16.7%) were motivated.In this study from total study participants of selected public hospitals for work performance perceived was 47.2%supposed that work was well done/ performed and this performance lowest in physician/doctors/ 8.1% highest 32.2% among nurse where majority (53.3%) of them perceived not well done (Table 3). The Overall job satisfaction of health professionals in the selected health facilities was 44.3% and ranging from least 6.4% to highest 33.6% ,Midwifery and Nurses respectively with (AOR=2(1.2-3.2)).