Stakeholder Perspectives on Retention Strategies for Rehabilitation Professionals: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: There is a scarcity of health human resources worldwide. In occupational therapy (OT), physical therapy (PT), and speech-language pathology (S-LP), attrition and retention issues amplify this situation and contribute to the precarity of health systems. Therefore, we aimed to investigate retention strategies for rehabilitation professionals in Quebec. We present an analysis from individual interviews with rehabilitation professionals and focus groups with stakeholders. We used purposeful sampling (maximum variation approach) to recruit participants from Quebec, Canada. We conducted interviews with 51 OTs, PTs, and S-LPs (2019-2020) and four focus groups with managers, professional education programs, professional associations, and regulatory bodies (2022). Cultural-historical activity theor

SUBMITTER: Mak S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12552756 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature