Investigating the factors affecting health care workers' intention to remain in villages.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Settlement in a village and being native is one of the special conditions for choosing to be a health care worker as they must be accessible day and night and provide people with health services when needed. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting health care workers' intention to remain in villages covered by Jundishapur University, Ahvaz, Iran.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study in 2019. The total number of health workers working at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Iran was 1034, amongst whom 280 individuals participated in this study. The data collection tool was a questionnaire consisted of two parts, in the first part of which there were 11 questions on personal information of the participants.

SUBMITTER: Rakhshani T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10161689 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature