Job satisfaction of physicians and teachers; regular verses contract basis jobs

Objectives: To determine the level of job satisfaction of physicians and teachers having regular jobs and those having contract based jobs and to compare level of job satisfaction between these types of jobs and between the two professions

Study design: Cross sectional study

Duration and place of study: This study was conducted with teachers and physicians recruited at different schools, colleges and hospitals of Faisalabad in six months from October, 2008 to March 2009

Subjects and methods: A sample of 200 participants, 100 physicians [50 regular and 50 on contract basis] from public hospitals and 100 teachers [50 regular and 50 on contract] from public schools and colleges was drawn through purposive convenient sampling technique

Result: In overall profession wise analysis teachers scored higher on job satisfaction scale [m=131.98] than physicians [m=126.98]. Personals having regular jobs had lower job satisfaction [m=128.52] than professionals have contract jobs [m=130.45]

Conclusion: Contract based jobs carry higher levels of job satisfaction for employees than the regular based jobs

relationship between the characteristics of mentallyretarded persons and the quality of life perception oftheir parents

Objective: The study was designed to assess thelevel of quality of life [QOL] in the parents ofindividuals with mental retardation [MR] and itsrelationship with the characteristics of the sufferingindividuals

Study Design: Quasi experimentalresearch design

Place: The study was carried out inthe Department of Psychiatry and BehavioralSciences, Allied/DHQ Hospitals, PMC Faisalabad,Almasoom center Faisalabad and Amine Maktabspecial institute for mentally retarded childrenLahore

Duration of the study: The study wasconducted during July 2007 to December 2007

Method: 98 mothers and 91 fathers of mentallyretarded individuals from public Hospitals andcenters for mentally retarded children in Faisalabadand Lahore participated in this study throughpurposive convenient sampling technique. Qualityof life was measured by WHO QOL-BREF[Validated Urdu Version] while demographicvariables were recorded on a demographic sheet.The results were obtained by using analysis ofvariance [ANOVA] on SPSS 13

Results: Mothershad scored higher on QOL environment domainwhen their MR Child had the ability to dojudgments in daily living, F [1, 97] = 4.640, p < .05.Fathers of the MR persons who can reason havescored higher on this domain [M = 16.105] than thefathers of the MR persons who can not reason [M =13.694], F [1, 90] = 6.692, p < .05. ANOVA showeddifferences in the QOL scores of the fathers onpsychological, F [1, 90] = 4.819, p < .05, socialrelationships, F [1, 90] = 5.174, p < .05 andenvironment domain, F [1, 90] = 5.320, p < .05depending upon the ability of MR person to travelpublic transport; independent sample t test producedenough evidence to establish the effects on all fourdomains of QOL

Conclusion: In the face of theevidence of high deterioration in quality of life ofthe parents in absence of judgments to daily living,reasoning, and ability to travel public transport, it isto be communicated to parents and teachers of MRpersons to pay more attention on the training ofthese skills. Further more physicians, psychiatrists,other health care professionals and members of thefamily are to be sensitized in identifying thisdisturbance in the quality of life perception in orderto take measures against it so that familyfunctioning may not be disturbed

Psychosocial adjustment of educated and uneducated infertile females of Pakistan

The present research was designed to investigate the differences in psychosocial adjustment of educated and uneducated infertile females. Cross Sectional study. The data was collected from infertility Advisory Center, Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Fatima Memorial Hospital and Jinnah Hospital Lahore, from March 2005 to July 2005. The total sample consisted of 50 diagnosed infertile females, age range 25-45 years, prerequisite condition was that they had a minimum duration of marriage of three years without children and were under the treatment. In study, 40 translated items were used to assess the psychosocial adjustments, which were derived from Bell Adjustment Inventory [BAI]. The data was analyzed by the help of SPSS. Results indicated that there is a significant difference [t=3.39 and p<0.05] between psychosocial adjustment of educated and uneducated infertile females. The social class, employment and unemployment factors have also significant impact on adjustment of infertile females. It is concluded that the educated infertile females show greater psychosocial adjustment than uneducated infertile females. This relationship will further help to explore other psychosocial dimension of infertile patients