Waliu Babatunde Ogunbamowo, Ashon, Daniel Oluwatobi,
Oladipupo Basirat Olushola and Adeyemi, Ibrahim Oluwajuwon
Department of Human Kinetics, Sports and Health Education, Lagos State University
Abstract
This study examined extrinsic rewards as predictor for mental health challenges among nurses in primary healthcare centres, Lagos state. Two research questions and hypotheses were postulated while the Descriptive survey research design was used. Population of this study comprises of all nurses working in Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in Lagos State. A total of 100 nurses working in PHCs, Lagos State were selected using multistage sampling techniques. The research instrument adopted was the “Extrinsic Rewards and Mental Health Challenge Questionnaire” (ERMHCQ) which was distributed, collected and analysed using descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentages for demographics data and inferential statistics of Multiple Regression analysis at 0.05 level of significance to test the hypothesis The findings of the study revealed that there was relationship between staff remuneration, work stress and occurrence of burn out among nurses in primary healthcare centre (r1=0.337, p= 0.000<0.05), Lagos state. Further findings revealed that there was no relationship between staff remuneration and work stress but there wasrelationship between work environment and occurrence of work stress among nurse in primary healthcare centres, Lagos State (r1=0.271 p= 0.000<0.05). From the findings, it was recommended that government should regularly review nurses’ remuneration and ensure that it match the cost of living and inflation rate which improves staff retention and reduces turnover rates.