Table 1 Parameters and their use in the baseline survey of the Thai Nurse Cohort Study
From: Thai nurse cohort study: cohort profiles and key findings
Parameters | Use |
|---|---|
A. Demographic and socio-economics characteristics | |
o Thai citizen identification number to be used for ascertainment of morbidity and mortality status in National Health and Death Registry Databases (password protected access) | o Estimating rate of morbidity and mortality for overall and specific to causes or other subgroups o Simultaneously monitoring long-term changes of morbidity and mortality and their determinants o Investigating survival outcome (time to disease, disease progression, dead) o Estimating life expectancy of nurses and its 20 year trends o Determining long-term effect of various factors on mortality and morbidity o Reflecting women health status in Thailand |
o Birth place (province and district) | o Characterizing geographically distribution of nurses o Describing work place preference against birth place o Explaining and predicting Job turnover and retention o Testing hypotheses about scholarship or other incentives for working in underserved area |
o Birth date or age, sex, marital status | o Investigating their effects on job turnover and health statuses |
o Month and year of nursing graduation | o Estimating median survival of working in nursing profession |
o Month and year of started working and employment status | o Estimating duration of work o Estimating time gap before employment o Being a baseline employment for investigation of job turnover o Investigating its effect on job turnover and health status |
o Institute from which being graduated (public college under the Ministry of Public Health, public university, private educational institute) | o Investigating its effect on retention and workplace preference (urban versus rural, and total survival in profession) o Being a mode for maximizing follow-up rate such as establishing social network among cohort members |
o Education (highest level of educational, specialized training, scholarship) | o Determining opportunity of career advancement o Describing distribution of skilled and skill-mix nursing, comparing between urban and rural o Investigating effect of scholarship on work retention and nursing distribution |
o Economic status (income, debt, perception of income sufficiency, dependency) | o Investigating its effect on job turnover o Investigating its effect on stress or various health problems as well as health conditions causing the problems |
B. Work-life characteristics | |
B1. Job transition since graduation | |
o Date start working for each roles or employment o Type of work: service and non-service (administrative, teaching) o Leaving nursing for other careers or for un-employ o Study leave o Place of work (public versus private, inside versus outside birthplace) | o Characterizing of job transition pattern over working lifetime o Monitoring of long-term nursing turnover o Describing distribution of nurses between major sectors o Determine pattern of job turnover on intention to stay or leave nursing career o Estimating duration between certain point in time or type of employment and the turnover o Estimating of work-life expectancy (It was 22 years according to the latest estimate in 2007.) |
B2. Employment characteristics and working intensity | |
o Current employment status (government, private, freelance, others) o Current position (nursing services, administration, research, academic, others) o Current workplace category (hospital, health care center or unit, under study leave, others) o Full time part-time employment, o Work shift arrangement, o Work under night shift, o Working hours per week o Other job in addition to nursing | o Determine current and long-term trend distribution of nurses according to various type of employments, sectors, and employment status o Describing working load as determinants of job turnover and health o Investigating roles of night-evening shift on job turnover and health o Describing work-life balance profile and its role on job turnover and health |
B3. Perceived work stresses (21 items, score 1–4 each) | o Estimating proportion of nurses with work stress o Investigating its effect on job turnover o Investigating its effect on various health problems as well as health conditions causing the problems |
B4. Workplace violence and occupational injuries | |
o Physical harassment, psychological harassment, from colleagues, patient and their relatives | o Estimating proportion of nurses facing workplace violence o Investigating its effect on job turnover |
o Occupation injuries: specify: cut wound, needle stick, chemical and radiation injuries, o Hospital acquired infections e.g. TB, Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, | o Estimating rate and trend of occupational injuries o Investigating its effect on job turnover |
B5. Intension to leave and to return to nursing career | |
o Intention to leave nursing profession and the reasons for those currently working in nursing profession | o Estimating probability to leave and predicted duration before quit o Investigating its effect on job turnover |
o Intention and enabling conditions to return to nursing profession for those currently not engaged in nursing profession | o Estimating probability of return to nursing professions, list of potential policy intervention on retention o Investigating its effect on job turnover |
C. Health status and related information | |
C1. Anthropometrics, daily activities, and sleeping | |
o Current anthropometric measurements: body weight, height, waist and hip circumference | o Investigating its effect on job turnover o Investigating its effect on stress or various health problems as well as health conditions causing the problems |
o Intensity of daily physical activities (duration of heavy, moderate, walk, sit activities) o Physical activities at leisure | o Estimating prevalence of regular physical activities, compared to general population o Investigating roles of physical, diets and cholesterol on various chronic diseases and metabolic syndromes |
o Average duration of sleeping per day and frequency of sleeping difficulties | o Investigating its effect on job turnover o Investigating its effect on stress or various health problems as well as health conditions causing the problems |
C2. History and current illness, and self-care activities | |
o Family members who had history of illness being diagnosed by medical doctor | o Investigating its effect on job turnover o Investigating its effect on stress or various health problems as well as health conditions causing the problems |
o The respondent’s history of illness being diagnosed by medical doctor and whether or not currently under treatment | o Estimating incidence / prevalence and type of chronic illnesses |
o Annual physical checkup being done and their results with regard to breast self examination, cervical cancer screening, chest film, blood examination, lipid measurements, etc.) | o Describing health awareness o Estimating proportion of nurses who had certain problems regarding various laboratory findings, health measurements, or diseases |
o Health care services being utilized by the respondent during the last 12 months | o Investigating health profiles |
o Hospitalization during the last 12 months | o Investigating health profiles |
o Medication used during the last 30 days | o Investigating health profiles |
o Self assessment of health in the last 30 days based on EuroQol five-dimension questionnaire (EQ-5D) | o Estimating level of health status according to self-perceptions |
o Reproductive health for female respondents (pregnancies, delivery, and family planning methods) | o Estimating total fertility rate among nurse, infertility, prevalence and profile |