Clinical trial NCT03385811: Exploring ProQOL, Health Status, Job Involvement and Turnover in Medical Professionals
Official title: Exploring the Correlation of ProQOL, Health Status, Job Involvement, Intention to Stay and Turnover Behaviour in Medical Professionals
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Intention to Stay, Turnover Behavior
Keywords: Professional quality of life, Medical Professionals, Job Involvement, Intention to Stay,
Lead sponsor: China Medical University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-12-29
Enrollment: 550
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Medical professions who work in the hospital

Brief summary: 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: 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Aged over 20 years old
2. Currently serving as a hospital care provider
3. Job title as attending physician, resident, nurse practitioners, nurse
4. Directly practicing in patients' care

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Medical Director
2. Clinical Researcher

Primary outcomes:
measure: professional quality of life scale
timeFrame: within past 30 days
measure: Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ)
timeFrame: within past 30 days
measure: SF-36
timeFrame: within past 30 days
measure: intention to stay questionnaire
timeFrame: within past 30 days
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Associate Professor, Nursing school, China Medical Univerisity, Taiwan.
name: Li-Chi Huang
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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