Job preferences of medical and nursing students seeking employment in rural China: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

China has a shortage of health workers in rural areas, but little research exists on policies that attract qualified medical and nursing students to rural locations. We conducted a discrete choice experiment to determine how specific incentives would be valued by final-year students in a medical university in Guizhou Province, China.

Methods

Attributes of potential jobs were developed through the literature review, semi-structured interviews, and a pilot survey. Forty choice sets were developed using a fractional factorial design. A mixed logit model was used to estimate the relative strength of the attributes. Willingness to pay and uptake rates for a defined job were also calculated based on the mixed logit estimates.

Results

The final sample comprised 78

SUBMITTER: Bao M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7934374 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature