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Investigating Attraction and Retention of Staff Within Public Mental Health Services in Victoria, Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

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العنوان: Investigating Attraction and Retention of Staff Within Public Mental Health Services in Victoria, Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study
المؤلفون: Kaitlyn Crocker, Inge Gnatt, Darren Haywood, Ravi Bhat, Ingrid Butterfield, Anoop Raveendran Nair Lalitha, Ruby Bishop, David J Castle, Zoe M Jenkins
المصدر: JMIR Research Protocols, Vol 12, p e48855 (2023)
بيانات النشر: JMIR Publications, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, R858-859.7
الوصف: BackgroundA large proportion of Australians are affected by mental illness each year, and treatment gaps are well known. To meet current and future demands and enable access to treatment that is safe, effective, and acceptable, a robust and sustainable mental health workforce is required. Factors reported to attract people to work within the mental health sector include aspiring to help others, having an interest in mental health and human behavior, the desire to make a difference and do something worthwhile, personal lived experience, recognition, and value of discipline-specific roles. However, despite the various reasons people enter the public mental health workforce, recruitment and retention continue to be ongoing challenges. To date, there has been limited investigation into understanding which factors are most relevant to the current Victorian workforce. Furthermore, a comparison to health care workers outside of mental health is also needed to better understand the specific needs of staff within the mental health sector. ObjectiveThis study aims to explore factors related to attraction, recruitment, and retention of the public mental health workforce in Victoria, Australia. MethodsThe study is a multisite, mixed methods cross-sectional study to be conducted at 4 public hospital services within Victoria, Australia: 2 in metropolitan and 2 in regional or rural locations. Current, previous, and nonmental health workers will be asked to complete a 20-25–minute web-based survey, which is developed based on previous research and offered participation in an optional 30-60–minute semistructured interview to examine personal experiences and perceptions. Both aspects of the project will examine factors related to attraction, recruitment, and retention in the public mental health workforce. Differences between groups (ie, current, past, and nonmental health workers), as well as location, discipline, and health setting will be examined. Regression analyses will be performed to determine the factors most strongly associated with retention (ie, job satisfaction) and turnover intention. Qualitative data will be transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed to identify common themes. ResultsAs of May 2023, we enrolled 539 participants in the web-based survey and 27 participants in the qualitative interview. ConclusionsThis project seeks to build on current knowledge from within Australia and internationally to understand role and service/system-related issues of attraction, recruitment, and retention specifically within Victoria, Australia. Seeking up-to-date information from across the health workforce may provide factors specific to mental health by illuminating any differences between mental health workers and health care workers outside of mental health. Furthermore, exploring motivators across health care disciplines and locations to enter, stay in, or leave a role in public mental health settings will provide valuable information to support how the sector plans and develops strategies that are fit for purpose. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)DERR1-10.2196/48855
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1929-0748
العلاقة: https://www.researchprotocols.org/2023/1/e48855Test; https://doaj.org/toc/1929-0748Test
DOI: 10.2196/48855
الوصول الحر: https://doaj.org/article/6dc3f6b4a57b41088dfaae3f497dee02Test
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.6dc3f6b4a57b41088dfaae3f497dee02
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