Job satisfaction of general practitioners in Beijing Chaoyang District and influencing factors / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the job satisfaction of general practitioners in Beijing Chaoyang District and related influencing factors.Methods Total 500 general practitioners from 35 community health service centcrs in Chaoyang District were invited to join this web-based survey in June 2015,and valid response was obtained from 419 of them.Information on the satisfaction to their career,income and practicing environment were collected.Factors associated with job satisfaction were analyzed using Chi-square test and logistics regression respectively,before and after adjustment of common confounders.Results Among 419 responders,there were 296 females (70.6％) and 123 males (29.4％) with a median age of 38 years old and median working duration of 15 year;297 (70.9％) of them had college degree or above;185 (44.2％) of them saw ＞ 120 patients per week and 227 (54.2％) of them worked ＞40 hour per week;179 (42.7％) of the responders worked at the outpatient clinics;180 (43.0％) of them were planning for further education in the next 5 years;311 (74.2％) of the responders were satisfied with their career,while only 124 (29.6％) of them were satisfied with their income,and 206 (49.2％) were satisfied with the practice environment.The multivariate logistic regression showed that age ＞40 year (OR =2.20,95％ CI1.33-3.61),working ＜ 40 hours per week (OR =2.70,95％ CI1.67-4.36),and planning for further education in the next 5 years (OR =2.21,95％ CI1.35-3.63)were positively associated with career satisfaction;＞ 40 year old (OR =2.03,95％ CI1.28-3.21),working ＜40 hours per week (OR =1.60,95％ CI1.04-2.46),and planning for further education in the next 5 years (OR =2.03,95％ CI1.28-3.22) were positively associated with satisfaction with the income;education lower than university (OR =2.14,95 ％ CI1.37-3.36),seeing ＜ 90 patients per week (OR =1.78,95％ CI1.18-2.69),working ＜ 40 hours per week (OR =1.73,95％ CI1.15-2.59),not working at outpatient clinic (OR =1.54,95％ CI1.02-2.31) and planning for further education in the next 5 years (OR =1.75,95％ CI1.16-2.63) were significantly associated with higher satisfaction with practice environment.Most of the responders thought that there was a shortage of primary care physicians.Conclusion General practitioners are generally satisfied with their careers,but are not satisfied with their income and practice environment in Beijing Chaoyang District.