Peña-Sánchez, Juan-Nicolás2023-09-2620232023-092023-09-26Septemberhttps://hdl.handle.net/10388/15065Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic adversely affected health care providers’ (HCPs) wellbeing. This study explored the association between HCPs’ wellbeing indicators and the intention to leave their current position in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among registered nurses (RNs), physicians, and respiratory therapists (RTs) between December 2021 and April 2022 via SurveyMonkey®. The online survey included demographics, validated scales to measure job satisfaction, burnout, moral distress, risk of depression, and resilience and a question about the HCPs’ intentions to leave their current position within the next year. Logistic regression models explored the association between the intention to leave the current position and HCPs’ wellbeing indicators. Adjusted odds ratios (AORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were reported. Result: Of 1,497 participants, 38.6% considered leaving their positions within the next year. HCPs reported high levels of resilience and moral distress. However, HCPs were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with their jobs. Additionally, 60.5% were at risk of depression, and 71.7% reported one or more symptoms of burnout. Controlling by gender, age group, having children, redeployment, burnout, and resilience levels, the odds of considering leaving the position decreased by 0.55 (95%CI 0.43-0.70) per unit of increase in the level of job satisfaction. HCPs experiencing high moral distress were more likely to leave their positions (AOR=3.97, 95%CI 2.93-5.39). RNs were more likely to consider leaving the position than physicians (AOR=1.68, 95%CI 1.13-2.50). Age interacted with gender, and burnout interacted with having children. Older women were more likely to leave the position than younger women. Although younger men were more likely to leave the position than men in the oldest age group. Moreover, the difference between those without and with children in the probability of considering leaving the position was wider among HCPs with no symptoms of burnout in comparison to the gap observed in the groups of HCPs with burnout. Conclusion: The level of job satisfaction is an indicator of HCPs’ retention. Distress levels and being RNs could predict HCPs’ intention to leave their positions. These findings could inform health care policies that enhance HCPs’ wellbeing and support initiatives that prevent high turnover rates during and after the pandemic.application/pdfenHealth care providersCovid-19Wellbeing indicatorsIntention to leave positions.Thesis2023-09-26