2025/06/09 by Ba Kien Tran, Cong Khanh Van, Thu Thi Hong Huynh +3
paper · doi:10.3897/pharmacia.72.e155839
crossref issued 2025/06/09 · crossref published 2025/06/09 · crossref published-online 2025/06/09 · crossref created 2025/06/09 · crossref deposited 2025/06/09 · crossref indexed 2026/08/05
This study was conducted to assess the intrinsic, organisational, and sociocultural motivational factors of community pharmacists. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 437 community pharmacists in Vietnam. The interactions between motivational factors were visually depicted using network analysis. Compared to organisational factors (4.00) and sociocultural factors (3.98), pharmacist motivation mainly came from intrinsic factors (4.04). Intrinsic motivation was significantly higher among those who were single, widowed or divorced ( p = 0.025); working in pharmacies or pharmacy chains ( p = 0.032); and in urban areas ( p = 0.027). Supervision, work pride and internal recognition were the most central factors in the motivational network. These findings suggest that future research and interventions targeting supervision, work pride and internal recognition may generate a spillover effect—producing broader impacts across the motivational system, thereby improving work motivation.