Exploring ProQOL, Health Status, Job Involvement and Turnover in Medical Professionals

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The study design is a cross-sectional study. Purposive sampling will be conducted in three hospitals in the central of Taiwan. The participants will include physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses. The number of 550 participants will be recruited. The measurements are questionnaires include demographic data, professional quality of life scale (ProQOL), Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ), SF-36 and intention to stay questionnaire.

Detailed Description
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Medical and Nursing care is a high-pressure work environment. The charterer of medical and nursing care includes urgency of patients' problems, an unpredictable number of patients, and lack of medical professionals. This high-level of pressure working environment not only affects the persons' physical and mental health, increase turnover rate, but also might indirectly reduce the quality of care, even threaten the life of patients. The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation between professional quality of life, health status, job involvement and intention to stay in medical professionals, and the predictive factors of intention to stay and turnover behavior. The study design is a cross-sectional study. Purposive sampling will be conducted in three hospitals in the central of Taiwan. The participants will include physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses. The number of 550 participants will be recruited. The measurements are questionnaires include demographic data, professional quality of life scale (ProQOL), Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ), SF-36 and intention to stay questionnaire.

Official Title
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Exploring the Correlation of ProQOL, Health Status, Job Involvement, Intention to Stay and Turnover Behaviour in Medical Professionals

Conditions
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Intention to Stay, Turnover Behavior

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: no intervention, only questionnaires survey


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Aged over 20 years old Currently serving as a hospital care provider Job title as attending physician, resident, nurse practitioners, nurse Directly practicing in patients' care Exclusion Criteria: Medical Director Clinical Researcher

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 20 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Medical Professionals<br>no intervention, only questionnaire survey | Other: no intervention, only questionnaires survey<br>* questionnaires survey<br>* Other names: no intervention;|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| professional quality of life scale | Professional quality of life scale consists of compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout(BO), and secondary traumatic stress (compassion fatigue, CF) | within past 30 days | 
| Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ) | Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ) includes 4 items | within past 30 days | 
| SF-36 | 36 items | within past 30 days | 
| intention to stay questionnaire | 6 items | within past 30 days | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Professional quality of life, Medical Professionals, Job Involvement, Intention to Stay,