Table 2 Policy cognition and policy choice motivation of RTMSs (N = 230)
Variable | N (%) | Intention of breaking contract | P-value | Intention of remaining after contract expires | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | Yes | No | Unsure | ||||
Understanding the conditions of policy before enrolling | ||||||||
Very or relatively well | 4 (1.7) | 3 (75.0) | 1 (25.0) | 0.002 | 0 | 1 (25.0) | 3 (75.0) | 0.097 |
Generally understand | 52 (22.6) | 43 (82.7) | 9 (17.3) | 2 (3.8) | 31 (59.6) | 19 (36.5) | ||
Don’t understand | 174 (75.7) | 167 (96.0) | 7 (4.0) | 1 (0.6) | 121 (69.5) | 52 (29.9) | ||
Policy choice motivation | ||||||||
Economic reasons | 129 (56.1) | 120 (93.0) | 9 (7.0) | 0.661 | 1 (0.8) | 91 (70.5) | 37 (28.7) | 0.126 |
Guaranteed employment | 86 (37.4) | 80 (93.0) | 6 (7.0) | 2 (2.3) | 56 (65.1) | 28 (32.6) | ||
Personal ambition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Other | 15 (6.5) | 13 (86.7) | 2 (13.3) | 0 | 6 (40.0) | 9 (60.0) | ||
Final arbiter of policy choice | ||||||||
Myself | 64 (27.8) | 61 (95.3) | 3 (4.7) | 0.503 | 0 | 32 (50.0) | 32 (50.0) | 0.008 |
Patents | 162 (70.4) | 148 (91.4) | 14 (8.6) | 3 (1.9) | 118 (72.8) | 41 (25.3) | ||
Teacher | 4 (1.7) | 4 (100) | 0 | 0 | 3 (75.0) | 1 (25.0) | ||
Cognition of policy’s effectiveness | ||||||||
Yes | 17 (7.4) | 13 (76.5) | 4 (23.5) | 0.003 | 0 | 9 (52.9) | 8 (47.1) | 0.180 |
No | 98 (42.6) | 88 (89.8) | 10 (10.2) | 3 (3.1) | 63 (64.3) | 32 (32.7) | ||
Unsure | 115 (50.0) | 112 (97.4) | 3 (2.6) | 0 | 81 (70.4) | 34 (29.6) | ||
Cognition of value of rural medical work | ||||||||
Very or relatively | 105 (45.7) | 92 (87.6) | 13 (12.4) | 0.021 | 3 (2.9) | 62 (59.0) | 40 (38.1) | 0.069 |
Generally valuable | 91 (39.6) | 87 (95.6) | 4 (4.4) | 0 | 69 (75.8) | 22 (24.2) | ||
No value | 34 (14.8) | 34 (100.0) | 0 | 0 | 22 (64.7) | 12 (35.3) | ||
Total | 230 | 213 (92.6) | 17 (7.4) | 3 (1.3) | 153 (66.5) | 74 (32.2) | ||