Job Satisfaction and Associated Factors among Medical Staff in Tertiary Public Hospitals: Results from a National Cross-Sectional Survey in China

Medical staff in China’s tertiary public hospitals are responsible for providing healthcare to a considerable number of patients, and their job satisfaction needs attention. The aim of this study is to investigate the job satisfaction of medical staff in tertiary public hospitals and to explore its...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 15; no. 7; p. 1528
Main Authors: Zhou, Huixuan, Han, Xueyan, Zhang, Juan, Sun, Jing, Hu, Linlin, Hu, Guangyu, Wu, Shichao, Zhao, Pengyu, Jiang, Feng, Liu, Yuanli
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 19.07.2018
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Subjects:
Adult
China
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Health facilities
Hospitals
Hospitals, Public - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Income - statistics & numerical data
Job Satisfaction
Male
Medical Staff - psychology
Medical Staff - statistics & numerical data
Middle Aged
Nurses
Patient satisfaction
Physicians
Physicians - statistics & numerical data
Public health
Researchers
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Tertiary Care Centers - statistics & numerical data
Workloads
China
Beijing China
tertiary public hospitals
individual characteristics
job-related factors
China
job satisfaction
ISSN:1660-4601, 1661-7827, 1660-4601
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Summary:Medical staff in China’s tertiary public hospitals are responsible for providing healthcare to a considerable number of patients, and their job satisfaction needs attention. The aim of this study is to investigate the job satisfaction of medical staff in tertiary public hospitals and to explore its associated factors. Based on a national survey conducted in 2016, this study included 43,645 physicians and nurses nested in 136 tertiary public hospitals in 31 provinces of China. Multi-level logistic regression was used to examine job satisfaction and its association with individual characteristics and job-related factors. Results showed that 48.22% respondents were satisfied with their job, and they were least satisfied with their compensation. Individual characteristics including occupation, gender, education background, alcohol drinking and self-reported health status, as well as job-related factors regarding professional title, work years, income, workload, doctor-patient relationship and practice setting were found to be significantly associated with job satisfaction. Given that some of these factors may be amenable to interventions, we suggest that government and hospital administrators could take some measures to promote continuing education, improve personal health, balance workload and compensation for medical staff, in order to improve the job satisfaction of medical staff in tertiary public hospitals.
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These authors contributed equally to this paper.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph15071528