Younger age, higher educational level, and presence of a chronic disease were also significant predictors of intended self-medication.
Session rating of intended exertion.
Rural background was the strongest predictor with a more than 17-fold increase in the odds of intending to practice rurally.
Self-efficacy was the most reliable direct predictor of academic satisfaction and intended persistence across the third and fourth semesters, though other social cognitive variables also contributed, either directly or indirectly, to predictions at one time point or the other.
In addition, work satisfaction was found to be an important predictor of where health professionals intended to work [ 11, 12].
This further supports that assertion of Pillay [ 11] that: work satisfaction is an important predictor of where health professionals intended to work.
Science fiction and futurism readily lead us astray when considering milestones such as a computer program passing the Turing test, which was never intended as predictor of machine superpowers.
The test was intended as a predictor of how a lipstick, warmed by a person's body temperature, might spread beyond the outline of one's lips.
A study in five African countries identified perceived stigma as the strongest predictor of job dissatisfaction leading to nurses' intending to migrate to other countries [ 43].
