Maternal and child health (MCH) program plays a vital role in improving mother and child health. The success of sucha program depends on the quality of service obtained from health care providers. The MCH program coverage in GianyarRegency is still below the national target. This study was aimed to determine the relationship between staff characteristics,motivation and financial incentive upon the performance of MCH workers in community health care centres. The study designwas cross-sectional with sample of 70 people. Samples were selected using a systematic random sampling. The independentvariables were age, duration of employment, education, training, motivation and financial incentive while the dependentvariable was the official performance. Data was collected using interview and observation. Data were analised using univariate,bivariate (chi-square) and multivariate (logistic regression) analysis. The majority of respondents 41 (58.6%) were lower age,shorter tenure 39 (55.7%), college-educated 57 (81.4%), 36 (51.4%) had received training, 42 (60%) of participantsdemonstrated low motivation, 47 (60.7%) were influenced by amount of financial incentives and high performance staff is only40 (57.1%). From the bivariate analysis, there was a significant association between training [OR=2.88; 95%CI 1.08-7.67],motivation [OR=6.77; 95%CI 2.15-21.29] and financial incentives [OR=4.09; 95%CI 1.30-12.85] and staff performance. From themultivariate analysis, only training [OR=6.11; 95%CI 1.61-23.23], motivation [OR=7.48; 95%CI 1.81-30.93] and financialincentives [OR=5.09; 95%CI 1.12-23.21) were found to have significant association. Based on study findings, there is a need toincrease incentive and further staff training to increase staff motivation to improve the overall performance output.
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