Attrition in occupational therapy : perceptions and intentions of Manitoba occupational therapists
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Abstract
Attrition is one professional issue facing the allied health discipline of occupational therapy.Little is known about the causes or determinants of attrition frorn a profession but attrition has many costs.Lirnited exploration of this topic, including the causes of attrition, has occurred in recent years or been conducted in Canadaor the province of Manitoba.A mixed methods study to determine the intentions and perceptions of Manitoba occupational therapists in regards to their careers was undertaken.Investigation of the demographic and career profiles of those who were intending to leave the profession was a prirnary focus of the study, along with evaluation of the factors that may affect retention in and departure from the profession and consideration of whether strategies to prevent attrition identified in the literature and in mainstream perception were congruent with the views of Manitoba occupational therapists.A focus gïoup was conducted to explore the topic of attrition fuither in a heterogeneous group of occupational therapists.Conclusions and themes that emerged frorn the focus group were used to assist in survey item development and refinement.A self-adrninistered survey was presented to potential respondents with a choice of completion modes-either paper or web-based electronic surveys.Findings provided a profile of the typical occupational therapist who was planning on leaving the profession, including the dernographic, educational and employment details unique to this group.Many work and professional factors were identified that are potential reasons Manitobans remain in the profession or are leaving.Those planning on leaving the profession experienced more frequent signs of burnout more frequently and reported unmet career expectations and very low levels of satisfaction with their ernployer and their current positions more frequently.Overall Attrition in Occupational Therapy 1-satisfaction with their career choice was very low and their career satisfaction had changed over time.Findings from the study were congÍLrent with literature on professional disillusionment, professional growth continuum theories and intrinsic and extrinsic factors contributing to job satisfaction.There was evidence from the findings to support attrition prevention strategies discussed in the literature.Mainstream views of continuing education as a primary solution for professional attrition was partially supported as the topic was definitely salient to Manitoba occupational therapists but at this level of analysis would not appear to conclusively either prevent respondents from leaving or contribute to them remaining in the profession.Attrition in Occupational Ther.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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