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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
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
NameTimeMethod
professional quality of life scalewithin past 30 days

Professional quality of life scale consists of compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout(BO), and secondary traumatic stress (compassion fatigue, CF)

SF-36within past 30 days

36 items

Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ)within past 30 days

Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ) includes 4 items

intention to stay questionnairewithin past 30 days

6 items

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

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