Factors Affecting Work Satisfaction of the Village Midwives At Sidenreng Rappang Regency, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

摘要

Introduction: Work satisfaction is something that could improve the capability and competence of an employee especially the village midwives. The village midwives admitted had an important position in maternal and child community health services, in order to avoid dissatisfaction; they should have high motivation, more diligent and perseverance to do their job. The study aimed to examine relationship between factors affecting work satisfaction of the village midwives in Sidenreng Rappang Regency, Indonesia in 2015.udMaterials and methods: This study was analytical-observational with cross sectional design, whereas the work, promotion, supervision, incentive, work condition, co-worker become Independent variable and work satisfaction as dependent variable. This study recruited all the midwives about 152 midwives, who work in the community health services in the villages. The data analysis was conducted using the Chi-square test and the Logistic Regression analysis.udResults: The research showed that out of 152 midwives, 92.1% satisfy as village midwives, and only 7.9% dissatisfy as village midwives. The research indicated that the factors correlated with the work satisfaction were the work (p=0.003), the promotion (p=0.019), the supervision (p=0.050, the work condition (p=0.012), and the co-worker (p=0.016). In addition, it was also found that there was no significant correlation between the incentive and work satisfaction of the village midwives (p=0.126). On the other hand, the most significant correlation with the work satisfaction was the work itself (p=0,000), Exp (B) 57.5 was greater than any other factors.udConclusion: This study suggested that supporting facilities and good infrastructures of health service, monitoring and evaluation of the midwives job, then followed by equal incentive and supporting policy will produce work satisfaction.