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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 550
- Aged over 20 years old
- Currently serving as a hospital care provider
- Job title as attending physician, resident, nurse practitioners, nurse
- Directly practicing in patients' care
- Medical Director
- 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
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method