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. 2018 Jan-Dec:55:46958018790831.
doi: 10.1177/0046958018790831.

Doctors' Job Satisfaction and Its Relationships With Doctor-Patient Relationship and Work-Family Conflict in China: A Structural Equation Modeling

Shumin Deng  1 , Ningxi Yang  1 , Shiyue Li  1 , Wei Wang  1 , Hong Yan  1 , Hao Li  1   2
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Doctors' Job Satisfaction and Its Relationships With Doctor-Patient Relationship and Work-Family Conflict in China: A Structural Equation Modeling

Shumin Deng et al. Inquiry. 2018 Jan-Dec.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship of doctors' job satisfaction with doctor-patient relationship and work-family conflict in China. The data came from a cross-sectional survey in Hubei province, which was part of China's Fifth National Health Services Survey conducted in 2013. The survey in Hubei covered 54 secondary and tertiary general hospitals distributed in 20 counties. Of the 1080 questionnaires, 908 were included into our analysis. After surviving from reliability and validity tests, structural equation modeling was applied for further analysis with SPSS 20.0 and Mplus 7.0. The results showed that the average score of job satisfaction is 19.61 out of 30 points, indicating a relatively low level of doctors' job satisfaction in Hubei province. Work-family conflict was found to have negative impact on doctors' job satisfaction, and good doctor-patient relationship was found to have positive impact on their job satisfaction. Therefore, hospital administrators and policy makers should make effort to design and implement strategies that focus on meliorating doctor-patient relationship and balancing doctors' work and family life to further improve their job satisfaction.

Keywords: China; Fifth National Health Services Survey; doctor-patient relationship; doctors; job satisfaction; questionnaire; work-family conflict.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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