Measuring Health Workers' Motivation Composition : Validation of a Scale Based on Self-Determination Theory in Burkina Faso
Although motivation of health workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has become a topic of increasing interest by policy makers and researchers in recent years, many aspects are not well understood to date. This is partly due to a lack of appropriate measurement instruments. This article presents evidence on the construct validity of a psychometric scale developed to measure motivation composition, i.e., the extent to which motivation of different origin within and outside of a person contributes to their overall work motivation. It is theoretically grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT). We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 1142 nurses in 522 government health facilities in 24 districts of Burkina Faso. We assessed the scale's validity in a confirmatory factor analysis framework, investigating whether the scale measures what it was intended to measure (content, structural, and convergent/discriminant validity) and whether it does so equally well across health worker subgroups (measurement invariance)
Authors: | Lohmann, Julia ; Souares, Aurelia ; Tienedrebeogo, Justin ; Houlfort, Nathalie ; Robyn, Paul Jacob ; Somda, Serge M.A. ; De Allegri, Manuela |
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