Staff recruitment and selection practice in public health facilities of east shoa zone, oromia regional state, Ethiopia

Abstract

Background:-. Perceived of healthcare workers on recruitment and selection practices can potentially affect the provision of health services. There are also factors that affect perceived of health workers towards recruitment and selection in health systems. Yet both perceived of health workers and its determinants on this process are not well studied in the Ethiopia, specifically to study area. Objective: - To assess perceived of health care workers and its associated factors on recruitment and selection practice in the public health facilities of East Shoa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. Method: - A facility based cross-sectional study was conducted from August 13 to September 2, 2018 in 59 health centers located in East Shoa Zone. Using simple random sampling a total of422 health professionals were included in this study. Bivariate and multiple logistic regressions were used to identify independent predictors of the outcome variable. Results: - Among 384 participants, 195(50.8%) of the study participants had good perceived on recruitment practice and 189(49.2%) had poor perceived on recruitment practice. Covariates like: Sex [(AOR: 4.186; 95% CI: [2.099, 8.348)], Health workers‟ age [(AOR: 2.292; 95%CI: [0.153, 3.556)], work experience [(AOR: 0.092; 95% CI: [0.049, 0.172)] had statistically significant association with perceived on recruitment. Similarly Male healthcare worker [(AOR: 4.134; 95% CI: [1.940, 9.616)], Age of health workers [(AOR: 2.902; 95% CI: [1.49, 5.647)], health workers who had working experience between one and five years [(AOR: 0.027; 95% CI: [0.012, 0.060)], Performance appraisal [(AOR: 1.286; 95% CI: [1.073, 2.754)], job description and specification [(AOR: 1.571; 95% CI: [1.363, 3.897)] had statistically significant association with perceived on selection and also Degree holders [(AOR: 1.329; 95% CI: [1.279, 2.777)], and MSc degree holders [(AOR: 1.130; 95% CI: [1.274, 4.658)] had statistically significant association with perceived on recruitment and selection practice Conclusions: - Overall perceived of health workers on the recruitment and selection practice is good. This means majority of health care providers had good perceived on the recruitment and selection practices. Sex and age of health care providers were identified as significant predictors of perceived of health workers on recruitment and selection practices.