Alotaibi M
Health Information Administration Department, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kuwait University, Sulaibikhat, Kuwait.
Int Nurs Rev. 2007 Jun;54(2):160-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2007.00555.x.
Many nursing associations in the world are facing difficulties in increasing nurses' membership. Many researchers have identified possible causes for this decline.
To explore factors that influence nurses' decision to join or not to join the Kuwait Nursing Association (KNA).
A Professional Association Membership Questionnaire (PAMQ) developed by Yeager (1981) was used. A short demographic questionnaire and two open-ended questions developed by the researcher were added at the end of the questionnaire to gather the data sought in this study. The participants were 40 nurses who are current members of KNA and 100 nurses who had been members of KNA in the past and did not renew their membership in 2005.
This study showed that all 29 reported benefits were not very important to both groups. However, nine benefits strongly influenced the current members' decisions to join KNA, namely social activities, relief from boredom, fun, travel, improvement of health care, Something new, friendship, group benefit plans and peer group contact. The former members valued five benefits, namely education, programmes, support, professionalism and self-improvement.
Current and former members differ in their reasons to join or not to join the KNA. All the benefits provided by an association may not necessarily attract members and the philosophical differences between them are one of the reasons not join an association.
世界上许多护理协会在增加护士会员人数方面面临困难。许多研究人员已经确定了导致这种下降的可能原因。
探讨影响护士决定加入或不加入科威特护理协会（KNA）的因素。
使用了由耶格尔（1981年）编制的专业协会会员调查问卷（PAMQ）。在问卷末尾添加了由研究人员编制的简短人口统计调查问卷和两个开放式问题，以收集本研究所需的数据。参与者包括40名KNA现任会员护士和100名曾是KNA会员但在2005年未续费的护士。
本研究表明，所有29项报告的福利对两组来说都不是非常重要。然而，有9项福利对现任会员加入KNA的决定有很大影响，即社交活动、排解无聊、乐趣、旅行、改善医疗保健、新鲜事物、友谊、团体福利计划和与同行接触。前会员重视5项福利，即教育、项目、支持、专业性和自我提升。
现任会员和前会员加入或不加入KNA的原因不同。协会提供的所有福利不一定能吸引会员，他们之间的理念差异是不加入协会的原因之一。
