title: Measuring health workers’ motivation composition: validation of a scale based on Self-Determination Theory in Burkina Faso
creator: Lohmann, Julia
creator: Souares, Aurélia
creator: Tiendrebéogo, Justin
creator: Houlfort, Nathalie
creator: Robyn, Paul Jacob
creator: Somda, Serge M. A.
creator: De Allegri, Manuela
subject: ddc-610
subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine
description: Background: Although motivation of health workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has become a topic of increasing interest by policy makers and researchers in recent years, many aspects are not well understood to date. This is partly due to a lack of appropriate measurement instruments. This article presents evidence on the construct validity of a psychometric scale developed to measure motivation composition, i.e., the extent to which motivation of different origin within and outside of a person contributes to their overall work motivation. It is theoretically grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT).   Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 1142 nurses in 522 government health facilities in 24 districts of Burkina Faso. We assessed the scale’s validity in a confirmatory factor analysis framework, investigating whether the scale measures what it was intended to measure (content, structural, and convergent/discriminant validity) and whether it does so equally well across health worker subgroups (measurement invariance).   Results: Our results show that the scale measures a slightly modified version of the SDT continuum of motivation well. Measurements were overall comparable between subgroups, but results indicate that caution is warranted if a comparison of motivation scores between groups is the focus of analysis.   Conclusions: The scale is a valuable addition to the repository of measurement tools for health worker motivation in LMICs. We expect it to prove useful in the quest for a more comprehensive understanding of motivation as well as of the effects and potential side effects of interventions intended to enhance motivation.
publisher: BioMed Central
date: 2017
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22994/1/12960_2017_Article_208.pdf
identifier: DOI:
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-229948
identifier:   Lohmann, Julia ; Souares, Aurélia ; Tiendrebéogo, Justin ; Houlfort, Nathalie ; Robyn, Paul Jacob ; Somda, Serge M. A. ; De Allegri, Manuela  (2017) Measuring health workers’ motivation composition: validation of a scale based on Self-Determination Theory in Burkina Faso.  Human Resources for Health, 15 (33).  pp. 1-12.  ISSN 1478-4491     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22994/
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language: eng