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Table 2 Exploratory factor analysis of CHW motivation to perform SHCI

From: Community health worker motivation to perform systematic household contact tuberculosis investigation in a high burden metropolitan district in South Africa

Item

Factor 1: Intrinsic job satisfaction

Factor 2: Burnout

Factor 3: Team commitment

I have happy thoughts and feelings about those I am able to help

0.896

0.006

−0.087

I am proud of what I can do to help others

0.743

0.000

−0.044

I believe I can make a difference in my work

0.621

−0.040

0.173

I am a hard worker

0.574

−0.034

0.170

I am punctual when coming to work

0.492

−0.032

0.109

I do things that need doing without being asked or told

0.461

0.035

0.217

I feel overwhelmed because my workload seems endless

−0.070

0.793a

0.160

I feel overwhelmed by my work as a CHW

−0.052

0.673a

0.212

Sometimes when I get up in the morning I dread having to face another day at work

0.047

0.665a

−0.119

I only do this job to get paid

−0.130

0.448a

−0.066

I feel emotionally drained at the end of every day

0.146

0.416a

−0.183

I am proud to be working for the WBPHCOT

0.051

−0.088

−0.761

I feel committed to working with this WBPHCOT

0.086

0.022

−0.739

The WBPHCOT inspires me to do my very best in my job working in the community

0.059

0.022

−0.705

I am satisfied with the services being provided by me

0.133

0.067

−0.495

My work makes me feel satisfied

0.235

−0.105

−0.419

% variance explained

33.14

14.95

7.95

Cronbach’s alpha

0.83

0.73

0.83

Mean out of 4

3.66

2.57

3.49

Sd

0.39

0.64

0.53

  1. Extraction method: principal axis factoring. Rotation: Oblimin with Kaiser normalisation. aScores for negatively worded questions were reverse coded such that 1 = strongly agree, 2 = agree, 3 = disagree and 4 = strongly disagree, a high score suggested higher motivation; sd standard deviation