Work Engagement Among Health Professionals in Public Health Facilities of Bench-Sheko Zone, Southwest Ethiopia

Overview

Journal BMC Health Serv Res

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Health Services

Date 2023 Jun 27

PMID 37370107

Authors

Temesgen Ginbeto

Ayal Debie

Demiss Mulatu Geberu

Dereje Alemayehu

Endalkachew Dellie

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Abstract

Background: The level of health professional work engagement affects retention, burnout, job satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and outcomes; however, there is a paucity of evidence that benefit health professional work engagement. Therefore, this study aimed to assess work engagement and associated factors among health professionals at public health facilities in the Bench-Sheko zone in southwest Ethiopia.

Methods: Facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 605 health professionals from 29 March to 29 April 2021. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the participants. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Linear regression was fitted and those variables with p-value < 0.2 in simple linear regression were entered into multiple linear regression analysis. Unstandardized β-coefficient with 95% CI and p-value < 0.05 were used as the cut of points to determine the factors associated with work engagement.

Results: Mean score percentage of work engagement was 71.8%. Health center staff (β = 0.31; 95% CI: 0.22, 0.40), married professionals (β = 0.10; 95% CI: 0.005, 0.17), co-worker support (β = 0.06; 95% CI: 0.004, 0.11), role clarity (β = 0.14; 95% CI: 0.07, 0.21), reward (β = 0.10; 95% CI: 0.05, 0.15), resilience (β = 0.14 95%; CI: 0.07, 0.21), self-efficacy (β = 0.24; 95% CI: 0.16, 0.31) and optimism (β = 0.20; 95% CI: 0.15, 0.26) were positively associated with work engagement. On the contrary, cognitive demand (β= -0.06; 95% CI: -0.11, -0.01) was negatively associated with work engagement.

Conclusion: In this study, health professionals had a moderate level of work engagement. Health facilities shall improve their culture of co-worker support, role clarity, reward, resilience, self-efficacy, and optimism to enhance work engagement. Future researchers shall be done further studies to evaluate the relationship between cognitive demand and work engagement among health professionals.

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