Job satisfaction and retention of health-care providers in Afghanistan and Malawi

Table 1 Psychometric and bivariate comparisons of work environment and job satisfaction measures ^a

Construct	No. of questions	Afghanistan (N = 87)		Malawi (N = 360)		P-value (t-test)
		α	Mean (±SD)	α	Mean (±SD)
Sufficient resources	4	0.63	3.59 (0.79)	0.59	3.01 (0.92)	<0.01
Recognition	3	0.69	3.46 (1.17)	0.55	3.62 (1.11)	0.25
Paid an appropriate salary	1	N/A	2.99 (1.38)	N/A	1.89 (1.34)	<0.01
Training opportunities	2	0.57	4.05 (1.09)	0.57	3.09 (1.30)	N/A
Safety	3	0.86	3.92 (1.18)	0.42	3.68 (1.00)	0.08
Job satisfaction	4	0.55	3.97 (0.86)	0.72	4.19 (1.02)	<0.05
Intent to stay	3	0.82	2.67 (1.41)	0.54	4.00 (1.13)	<0.01

N/A, not applicable.
^aWith two different questions used to construct training opportunities in Afghanistan and Malawi and calculate the mean differences between two countries.

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