Motivation Affecting the Performance of Public health Officers at Sub-District Health Promotion Hospitals in Roi Et Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study motivation affecting the performance of public health officers at sub-district health promotion hospitals in Roi Et province. The sample of this study was a group of 200 public health officers and 12 persons participated in focus group discussion for qualitative data. The data were collected by the questionnaire, which was validated by three experts and tested reliability with Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.98 The data were collected for 1 month start from June 5^st-25^th, 2018. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistic and presented as the percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, minimum and maximum. And the inferential statistic used to analyze Pearson’s coefficient and multi-stage regression analysis.

It was revealed that majority of the subjects were females (55.0%). The age varied between 41 to 50 years (30.0%) with average age of 38.50 years (S.D.= 9.99). The youngest subject was 23 years old while the oldest one was 59 years of age. 64.5 % of the subjects have marital status. 87.5% completed the Bachelor. The most of them incomes than 20,000 bath (35.5%) with the mean income of 28,839 bath (S.D.= 11,828.44). The most term of working in public health officers at sub-district health promotion hospitals in Roi Et province was fewer than 10 years (51.5%).

Overall, the level of motivation was modest with average of 3.78(S.D.= 0.45) The performance of public health officers at sub-district health promotion hospitals in Roi Et province were found in the high level with average of 4.05 (S.D.=0.40). The motivation had a moderate level of correlated with the subject’s performance of public health officers at the statistical significantly (r=0.534, p-value<0.001). And the secondary variables that could predict the performance of public health officers at sub-district health promotion hospitals in Roi Et province included Policy and Administration Responsibility Factor in Personal Lif Salary Work Itself Working Condition and Trainning at the statistical significance by 40.3%.