Exploring ProQOL, Health Status, Job Involvement and Turnover in Medical Professionals

• Conditions: Intention to Stay, Turnover Behavior

• Registration Number: NCT03385811
• Lead Sponsor: China Medical University Hospital

Brief Summary

The study design is a cross-sectional study. Purposive sampling will be conducted in three hospitals in the central of Taiwan. The participants will include physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses. The number of 550 participants will be recruited. The measurements are questionnaires include demographic data, professional quality of life scale (ProQOL), Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ), SF-36 and intention to stay questionnaire.

Detailed Description

Medical and Nursing care is a high-pressure work environment. The charterer of medical and nursing care includes urgency of patients' problems, an unpredictable number of patients, and lack of medical professionals. This high-level of pressure working environment not only affects the persons' physical and mental health, increase turnover rate, but also might indirectly reduce the quality of care, even threaten the life of patients.

The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation between professional quality of life, health status, job involvement and intention to stay in medical professionals, and the predictive factors of intention to stay and turnover behavior.

The study design is a cross-sectional study. Purposive sampling will be conducted in three hospitals in the central of Taiwan. The participants will include physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses. The number of 550 participants will be recruited. The measurements are questionnaires include demographic data, professional quality of life scale (ProQOL), Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ), SF-36 and intention to stay questionnaire.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2017-11
• Study First Submitted: 2017-12-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-12-21
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-12-21
• Study First Posted: 2017-12-29
• Last Update Posted: 2017-12-29
• Study Start: 2018-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-05-31
• Study Completion: 2018-09-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 550

Inclusion Criteria

1. Aged over 20 years old
2. Currently serving as a hospital care provider
3. Job title as attending physician, resident, nurse practitioners, nurse
4. Directly practicing in patients' care

Exclusion Criteria

1. Medical Director
2. Clinical Researcher

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
professional quality of life scale	within past 30 days	Professional quality of life scale consists of compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout(BO), and secondary traumatic stress (compassion fatigue, CF)
SF-36	within past 30 days	36 items
Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ)	within past 30 days	Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ) includes 4 items
intention to stay questionnaire	within past 30 days	6 items