Quantitatively Applying a Person-Centered Approach in Rural Health Workforce Research: An Exploratory Latent Class Analysis of Early Career Rural Nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To explore the utility of a quantitative person-centred approach to identify subgroups of commencing first-year rural nurses and examine their work attitudes and intentions.

Design

Exploratory cross-sectional survey.

Methods

A survey of commencing first-year nurses was conducted in two Australian rural health districts in 2019 and 2020, with a 91% response rate. A two-step latent class analysis of 159 responses was undertaken with two indicators of perceived professional opportunity and three indicators of local connection and rural training. Three outcomes assessing work intention and attitudes were compared across subtypes.

Results

Four subgroups ('classes') were identified. There were significant differences in the outcomes between the two classes interp

SUBMITTER: Seaman CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12721936 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature