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Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development

OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the development of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) questionnaire to identify the factors (attributes) that allied health professionals (AHPs) working with people with disability identify as important to encouraging them to remain practising in rural areas. METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Gallego, Gisselle, Dew, Angela, Bulkeley, Kim, Veitch, Craig, Lincoln, Michelle, Bundy, Anita, Brentnall, Jennie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4414418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25895685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-015-0013-7
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author Gallego, Gisselle
Dew, Angela
Bulkeley, Kim
Veitch, Craig
Lincoln, Michelle
Bundy, Anita
Brentnall, Jennie
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Dew, Angela
Bulkeley, Kim
Veitch, Craig
Lincoln, Michelle
Bundy, Anita
Brentnall, Jennie
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description OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the development of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) questionnaire to identify the factors (attributes) that allied health professionals (AHPs) working with people with disability identify as important to encouraging them to remain practising in rural areas. METHODS: Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 97 purposively selected service providers working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia. Focus groups and interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed, and analysed using a modified grounded theory approach involving thematic analysis and constant comparison. RESULTS: Six attributes that may influence AHPs working with people with disability in rural areas to continue to do so were inductively identified: travel arrangements, work flexibility, professional support, professional development, remuneration, and autonomy of practice. The qualitative research information was combined with a policy review to define these retention factors and ensure that they are amenable to policy changes. CONCLUSION: The use of various qualitative research methods allowed the development of a policy-relevant DCE questionnaire that was grounded in the experience of the target population (AHPs).
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spelling pubmed-44144182015-04-30 Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development Gallego, Gisselle Dew, Angela Bulkeley, Kim Veitch, Craig Lincoln, Michelle Bundy, Anita Brentnall, Jennie Hum Resour Health Methodology OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the development of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) questionnaire to identify the factors (attributes) that allied health professionals (AHPs) working with people with disability identify as important to encouraging them to remain practising in rural areas. METHODS: Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 97 purposively selected service providers working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia. Focus groups and interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed, and analysed using a modified grounded theory approach involving thematic analysis and constant comparison. RESULTS: Six attributes that may influence AHPs working with people with disability in rural areas to continue to do so were inductively identified: travel arrangements, work flexibility, professional support, professional development, remuneration, and autonomy of practice. The qualitative research information was combined with a policy review to define these retention factors and ensure that they are amenable to policy changes. CONCLUSION: The use of various qualitative research methods allowed the development of a policy-relevant DCE questionnaire that was grounded in the experience of the target population (AHPs). BioMed Central 2015-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4414418/ /pubmed/25895685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-015-0013-7 Text en © Gallego et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Gallego, Gisselle
Dew, Angela
Bulkeley, Kim
Veitch, Craig
Lincoln, Michelle
Bundy, Anita
Brentnall, Jennie
Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development
title Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development
title_full Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development
title_fullStr Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development
title_full_unstemmed Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development
title_short Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development
title_sort factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural new south wales, australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development
topic Methodology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4414418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25895685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-015-0013-7
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