Abstract
Professional commitment is beyond a commitment for a particular organization and implies the individuals' perspective towards their profession and the motivation that they have to stay in their job with willingness to strive and uphold the values and goals of the profession. In Ethiopia, uptake of institutional delivery services is low. However, the level and factors associated with professional commitment is not known so far. Hence, our objective is to assess the level and factors associated with commitment of health professionals providing institutional delivery services in public health facilities of Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia. A facility-based cross-sectional study design was conducted from March 01-20, 2016. A total of 442 eligible health professionals were included from randomly selected 7 districts and 47 respective health facilities. Health professionals were requested to fill self-administered questionnaire. After checking its completeness, the data was entered into EPI data version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 20 for statistical analysis. Factor analysis was conducted. Simple and multiple linear regression were done using 95%CI and significance was declared at P<0.05. All assumptions of linear regression and principal component analysis were checked. The percentage mean score of professional commitment was 72.71% (SD21.88). The percentage mean score for perceived maternal health goal scale was 68.37% with the total variance explained being 69.68%. Perceived staff interaction, work-life balance, affective organizational commitment, normative organizational commitment, personal characteristics and perceived maternal health goal were independent predictors of professional commitment. The percentages mean score of professional commitment was medium. Hence, Health professionals should foster their level of professional commitment to increase uptake of institutional delivery services.
Highlights
Commitment is a willingness to give time and energy to something that is believed in, or a promised to do something and an act of binding oneself intellectually or emotionally to a course of action [1]
Perceived organizational support predictors: In this model, six factors related with organizational support entered. except perceived human resource policy and practice score (p=0.527), all factors score were significant to be a candidate for multiple linear regression analysis (p
Our study pointed out that professional commitment percentage mean score of health professionals was 72.7% (SD21.88) which is lower than a result reported from India, where the professional commitment percentages mean score was 85.9% (n=440) [9]
Summary
Commitment is a willingness to give time and energy to something that is believed in, or a promised to do something and an act of binding oneself intellectually or emotionally to a course of action [1]. Professional commitment is beyond a commitment for a particular organization and implies individuals’ perspective towards their profession and the motivation that they have to stay in their job [7]. Professional commitment is beyond a commitment for a particular organization and implies the individuals’ perspective towards their profession and the motivation that they have to stay in their job with willingness to strive and uphold the values and goals of the profession. Our objective is to assess the level and factors associated with commitment of health professionals providing institutional delivery services in public health facilities of Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia. The percentage mean score for perceived maternal health goal scale was 68.37% with the total variance explained being 69.68%. Health professionals should foster their level of professional commitment to increase uptake of institutional delivery services.
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