Assessment of the Job Satisfaction Levels of Family Physicians
Abstract
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the level of job satisfaction
and some related factors for family physicians in Turkey.
Materials and Methods: The study was
conducted with all the family physicians who participated in the trainings for
family physicians in Ankara between March 2015 and March 2016. Face-to-face
interviews and a questionnaire form with the physicians who took part in 15
organized trainings were fulfilled. In the study, questions were prepared by the
researchers in accordance with the relevant literature review and the short
form of the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire containing 20 expressions
were used.
Results: When comparing average
scores of general job satisfaction, internal job satisfaction, and external job
satisfaction regarding the working regions of the family physicians, a
statistically significant difference was found among the scores of
interregional external job satisfaction. While the average score of general job
satisfaction showed no statistically significant difference in terms of age,
gender, marital status, child ownership and smoking status; a statistically
significant difference was found between the mean scores of the general job
satisfaction regarding the periods in which the physicians performed family
medicine. While 622 (79.53%) of the family physicians who participated in the
study had moderate job satisfaction, the proportion of family physicians having
high job satisfaction was only 20.20%.
Conclusion: In this study, family
physicians' general job satisfaction scores were determined to be moderate. Factors
responsible for this situation should be identified and developed. Factors
could be either internal or external. The steps that would be taken to identify
and develop these factors would increase both the efficiency of the family
physicians and their level of satisfaction in primary health care services.
Keywords
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
25 Haziran 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
21 Haziran 2018
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2018 Cilt: 18 Sayı: 2