Job motivation and associated factors among health workers providing maternal and child health services in Wolaita Zone public hospitals, Southern Ethiopia; A mixed-method study

In this study, nearly forty-five percent of maternal and child health service providers weremotivated. Female gender,payment other than salary not paid on time, work overload, shortage of resources, limited training opportunities, and poor management and leadership of the organizations were significantly associated with providers' job motivation.Therefore, timely paid other benefitpayments, accessing training opportunities, implementing work force strategy, and availing of resources are very important actions that should be taken.