This study has been carried out with the aim of assessing physicians' job satisfaction to the hospital in which they work. Being cross-sectional and descriptive, the study covers all of 73 working in State Hospital, Obstetrics and Nursing Hospital and Private Uzmanlar Medical Center in the city centre of Bingöl. As a means of data collection, Personal Infomation Form, Job Satisfaction scale has been used.
In this study, 69.9 % of participant physicians are in the range of 30-39, 72.6% are married, 83.6 % are male and the spouse of 61% are postgraduated. 64.4 of the physicians are working in State Hospital, 21.9 % of them in Obstetrics and 13.7% are in Nursing Hospital and Private Uzmanlar Medical Center. As the physicians get older the hierarchical relations with physical conditions have been observed to raise the job satisfaction meaningfully in sub-scales. c The total average of job satisfaction of all the physicians participated in the study has been found as 127.67±12.67. The difference between total average points of job satisfaction obtained from three hospital has been statistically meaningful (p=0.025) and the average points of the physicians in Private Uzmanlar Medical Center were found to be the highest. Multivariate logistic regression reveals that the related variables associated with job satisfaction were age and hospital type (p0.05).
As a conclusion; new policies need to be put into effect to increase the job satisfaction of the physicians working in State Hospital, Obstetrics and Nursing Hospital and Private Uzmanlar Medical Center and it is recommended that the necessary precautions should be taken to improve the factors negatively affecting the job satisfaction of the physicians.
Key Words: Job Satisfaction, Hospital, Physicians
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