Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Performance of Primary Care Physicians after The Family Physician Reform of East Azerbaijan Province in Northwest Iran.
Following the implementation of family physician program in 2004 in Iranian healthcare system, the understanding in changes in physicians’ practice has become important.
Objective:
The objective of this study was to determine the level of family physicians’ job satisfaction and its relationship with their performance level. Materials and
In this study, overall response rate was 64.5%. The average score of job satisfaction was 42.10 (±18.46), and performance score was 87.52 (±5.74) out of 100. There was signifi cant relationships between working history and job satisfaction (P = 0.014), marital status (P = 0.014), and sex (P = 0.018) with performance among different personal and organizational variables. However, there was no signifi cant relationship between job satisfaction and performance, but satisfi ed people had about three times better performance than their counterparts (all P < 0.05).
Conclusions:
The low scores of family physicians in performance and job satisfaction are obvious indications for more extensive research in identifying causes and fi nding mechanisms to improve the situation, especially in payment methods and work condition, in existing health system.