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Background: Health workers account for the largest share of public expenditures on health and play a crucial role in efforts to improve the availability and quality of health services. There is concern that poor health worker performance may be limiting the effectiveness of health systems strengthening efforts. The objective of this study was to determine the level of job satisfaction and identify factors associated with it among health workers in Addis Ababa health centers. Method: Institution based cross sectional study was conducted on health workers in Addis Ababa health centers from March 2015 – December/2016. The final sample size was 420. Trained data collector’s administered a pretested and structured questioner was used for data collection. Data were entered in to EPI-Info 7 and analysis was done by SPSS version 20. Bivariate and Multivariate analysis were made to identify factors associated with the outcome variable and control confounders.
Result: Of all the respondents 58.6% (222) were female. The majority (73.2%) of the respondents belonged to the age groups <=30 years. More than half (50.7%) of respondents were married, 68.8% were BSc degree holders, and 43.9% had 2-5 years of experience. 53.8% of respondents were satisfied and 46.2% dissatisfied in their job. In the multivariate logistic regression model, marital status and professional qualification were the potent predictors of job satisfaction. Respondents who never married were 1.65 times more likely satisfied in their job (AOR: 1.65 [95% CI: 1.02, 2.66]) than those married or divorced. Laboratory professionals 2.74 times (AOR: 2.74 [95% CI: 1.14, 6.59]) and nurse professionals 1.97 times (AOR: 1.97 [95% CI: 1.12, 3.48]) more likely satisfied in their job than health officers.
Conclusion and Recommendation: Marital status and type of professions were factors for satisfaction. Further study is recommended to justify the finding that explained singles were more satisfied than married.
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