Predictors of health professionals' satisfaction with continuing education: A cross-sectional study.

Publisher: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo Country of Publication: Brazil NLM ID: 9420934 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1518-8345 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 01041169 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Rev Lat Am Enfermagem

Original Publication: São Paulo : Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, 1993-

Health Personnel* ; Personal Satisfaction*; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Education, Continuing ; Humans ; Spain ; Surveys and Questionnaires

Objectives: to verify which organizational, methodological, and resource-related characteristics of Continuing Health Education (CHE) help to best predict the professionals´ satisfaction.
Method: a cross-sectional study with multivariate logistic regressions to predict a high mean satisfaction with different dimensions of educational actions used: Overall satisfaction, Utility, Methodology, Organization and resources, and Teaching Capacity. 25,281 satisfaction questionnaires have been analysed completed by health professionals attending 1,228 training activities in Andalusia (Spain), during the period from March 2012 to April 2015.
Results: the characteristics that best predict a high overall satisfaction are the following: clinical session type as opposed to the workshop (Odds Ratio [OR]=2.07, p<0.001); face-to-face attendance modality (OR=3.88, p<0.001) or semi-personal-attendance (OR=2.83, p<0.001), as opposed to e-learning; and 1-2 days in duration (OR=2.38, p<0.001) as opposed to those of between 3 and 14 days. A lower number of hours (OR=0.99, p<0.001) and a lower number of professionals (OR=0.98, p<0.05) also increase the probability. Having the educational actions accredited increases the probabilities in the following dimensions: Utility (OR=1.33, p<0.05), Methodology (OR=1.5, p<0.01) and Teaching capacity (OR=1.5, p<0.01).
Conclusion: the study provides relevant information on aspects that improve professional satisfaction, such as that e-learning activities should improve their content, teaching methods, and styles, or that face-to-face clinical sessions are the type of CHE with the greatest satisfaction.

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Date Created: 20200702 Date Completed: 20200722 Latest Revision: 20240329

20240329

PMC7332251

10.1590/1518-8345.3637.3315

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