Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Developing a tool to measure health worker motivation in district hospitals in Kenya | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Open Access Developing a tool to measure health worker motivation in district hospitals in Kenya Patrick M Mbindyo 1 Duane Blaauw2 Lucy Gilson2 3 and Mike English1 4 Address 1Kenya Medical Research Institute Centre for Geographic Medical Research Coast-Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme Nairobi Kenya 2Centre for Health Policy School of Public Health University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa 3Health Policy Unit London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK and 4Department of Paediatrics University of Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford UK Email Patrick M Mbindyo - pmbindyo@ Duane Blaauw - Lucy Gilson - Mike English - MEnglish@ Corresponding author Published 20 May 2009 Received 8 July 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 40 doi 1478-4491-7-40 Accepted 20 May 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 40 2009 Mbindyo et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background We wanted to try to account for worker motivation as a key factor that might affect the success of an intervention to improve implementation of health worker practices in eight district hospitals in Kenya. In the absence of available tools we therefore aimed to develop a tool that could enable a rapid measurement of motivation at baseline and at subsequent points during the 18-month intervention study. Methods After a literature review a self-administered questionnaire was developed to assess the outcomes and determinants of motivation of Kenyan government hospital staff. The initial questionnaire included 23 questions .
