Objective: To determine job satisfaction level of doctors working at Ayub Teaching Hospital and correlate it to factors that affect job contentment with the help of a standardized tool. Study Design: Cross-sectional Analysis study. Setting: Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad. Period: First Two Weeks of December, 2019. Material & Methods: A self-administered online questionnaire was designed on Google Forms and was used to collect data from the doctors working at the aforementioned facility for more than three months. Data regarding various sociodemographic and professional characteristics as well as respondents’ views about their job as per Warr-Cook-Wall scale were noted. Pearson’s Correlational analysis, student’s t-test and one way ANOVA were applied for data analyze. Results: Among a total of 176 doctors, mean Job Satisfaction Score (JSS) was 37.56±13.35, which is below the neutral level, showing overall discontent and only 72 (40.9%) respondents were actually satisfied with their jobs. Highest content was noted for “Colleagues & fellow workers” and “Amount of Responsibility”, among the scale’s parameters. Whereas doctors were least satisfied with their “income”. Salary had a weak but statistically significant correlation with satisfaction score. Those working at basic medical sciences departments were more satisfied (p=0.006) and so were permanent employees (p=0.024). Professors were significantly more content (p=0.005). 71% of the doctors would like to be a doctor again if given an opportunity, whereas 63.1% would leave the country to serve abroad in case they get such an opportunity. Conclusion: Most of the doctors were not satisfied with their jobs. Among many factors, dissatisfaction with pay structure seems to be the most significant one. This discontent with their jobs is probably the reason most of them are willing to leave the country and serve abroad. Thus further research on the topic should be conducted to explore and implement strategies to alleviate this dissatisfaction.
Objectives: To determine stress grades of doctors working in tertiary care hospitals by using a standard measuring tool i.e. Kessler 10 psychological distress scale along with finding out different coping methods adopted by doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Study Design: Cross Sectional study. Setting: Tertiary Care Hospitals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan. Period: 15 March 2020 to 20 June 2020. Material & Methods: A structured questionnaire was sent online to the junior and senior doctors working during the pandemic. The data was automatically collected with the help of Google docs and then analysed using SPSS 26. Results: Of the 219 doctors who completed the questionnaire 142 were males (64.8%) and 77 were females (35.2%). Interestingly, analysis of the score revealed that 38.8% of the doctors were found likely to be well, 16.4% of the doctors were likely to have mild disease and 20.5% were likely to have a moderate disorder while 24.2% were likely to have a severe disorder. Further analysis showed that the mean of Kessler’s score was greater for junior doctors as compared to Consultants which was found to be statistically significant (p=0.044). Conclusion: The impact of Corona virus disease (COVID-19) on the stress levels of health workers warrants considerable attention as it was declared a pandemic. Assessing the psychological impact and ways to tackle them will not only help the health care workers during this pandemic but will be beneficial in future pandemics as well.
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