How Satisfied are Medical Workers with Their Jobs: A Psychometric and Psychoanalytic X-Ray
Journal Title: Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research - Year 2016, Vol 11, Issue 11
Abstract
This reserach study investigated how satisfied medical workers comprising of doctors, nurses and hospital administrators were with their jobs and roles in the hospital setting. The research specifically sort to unveil whether doctors were more satisfied than nurses and or administrators or vice versa. The sample used for the study were 120 medical workers drawn from a University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria. The breakdown of the subject were as follows: Medical doctors – 40, nurses – 40 and administrators 40. The instrument used in the study to measure job satisfaction was [1] Job descriptive index; r = .83 [1] and .93 [2]. The design adopted for the study was a T x S ANOVA Design and One – Way ANOVA for equal sample sizes was used for data analysis. The result revealed that there was a statistically significant difference in the satisfaction levels of medical workers [F(2,117) = 13.9 p<.05]. Nurses were more satisfied than doctors while the administrators were the least satisfied. The implication is that when medical workers are not satisfied with their jobs, it translates into reduced level of health care and attention given to the patients.
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Manasseh N. Iroegbu
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- DOI 10.9734/BJMMR/2016/15045
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