Institutional Factors Affecting the Performance Level of Health Professionalsin WestWellega Public Hospitals, Oromia,Ethiopia.

Abstract

Background: Performance management is one of the important key activities performed by organizations to monitor the performance of their employees at the set of organizational goal and many factors can affect the performance level of Health professionals in this situation. Objective:So the aim of this study was to assess the overall performance level of healthprofessionals in relation to institutional factors affecting it in West Wellega public Hospitals Oromia, Ethiopia. Methods: The study used a facility based cross-sectional study design which applied cluster sampling technique with census surveydata collection method. Adapted, structuredself-administered questionnaire of quantitative data collection was used.The result presented using descriptive summary statistics.Epi data 3.1 and SPSS version 23and Ninety five percent (95%) confidence level with marginal error of 5 % (d = 0.05) and p<0.05 cut point were used for analysis. Bivariate analysis (specifically, simple linear regression) was performed to select variables candidate for multivariate analysis and multivariate linear regression was performed to control con founders between variables and to get adjusted coefficients (βs). A p-value of < 0.05 was used to test the significance level. Results: Out of 278 questionnaires distributed, 243 were completed fully to give a response rate of 87.4%. Majority of the respondents were male 160 (65.84%) and nearly half of them were nurses in profession 112 (46.09%). The overall performance level was found to be 55.09%. Conclusion and recommendation: In general, the study documented almost all dimension of the performance level mean scoreare in medium class .Accordingly the performance level of nurse professionals were high followed by other health professionals.Organizational leadership and management was the strongest predictor of performance level dimensions. So health managers and policy makers should give due consideration to health professionals‟ performance level related factors to bring positive changes and achieve health related goals and objectives in their respective institution