Relationship of Characteristics and Motivation of Nurses with Caring Behavior in Regional Public Hospital Aceh

Abstract

In general, caring is an ability to be dedicated to others, vigilant supervision, feelings of empathy for others and feelings of love or affection for others. Caring is central of nursing practice, because caring is a dynamic approach which are nurses can work to further enhance their care for clients or patients. This study aimed to identify the relationship between the characteristics and motivation of nurses with caring behavior in Regional Public Hospital Aceh. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 154 nurses in one of Regional Public Hospital Aceh that were selected by using purposive sampling technique. Data were collected by using a questionnaire. The results of this study by using Chi-square test showed that the nurses’s age (P = 0.001), years of work (P = 0.009) and nurses’s motivation (P = 0.001) had a significant relationship with caring behavior. Meanwhile, gender (P = 0.950) and nurses’s education (P = 0.123) showed no significant relationship with caring behavior. Then, the result by using multiple logistic regression test showed the most variable that related to the caring behavior was nurses’s age (P = 0,001; OR 6.834). It suggested for nurses to improve their caring behavior to the patient, because it could increase the comfort feels of the patients and psychological needs will be fulfilled by caring.