Job Satisfaction and Associated Factors among Health Care Staff in Township Health Centers—— A Cross-Sectional Survey in Rural Central China

Abstract

Background:Township health centers play a cornerstone role in the work of primary health care in China while it’s development is largely limited by the brain drain. Job satisfaction is closely related to brain drain, investigating the relevant factors of job satisfaction can provide strategies to reduce brain drain. The aim of this study was to explore job satisfaction and associated factors among health-care staff in township health centers in Huangpi District. Methods: This research was conducted in Huangpi, China. Convenience sampling methods and self-administereded questionnaires were used. 1370 of valid samples were collected with 97.72% effective rate. Descriptive statistics are used to describe sociodemographic information. The Pearson Chi-square statistical was used to test the binary association between job satisfaction and another categorical variable. All the sociodemographic information was applied to the binary logistic regression model using the stepwise selection method. Results: The mean age was 36.98 (SD=9.84), Factors that affect job satisfaction include educational background (χ2= 7.99, p=0.046), monthly income (χ2= 51.43, p<0.001), hire form (χ2=7.64, p=0.049), hours worked per week (χ2=33.48, p<0.01), parent have had a stable job (χ2= 10.67, p<0.01). Conclusions: Government and management should consider the impact of current policies on job satisfaction to reduce staff’s personal job dissatisfaction, Reducing staff workload, increasing salary and overtime benefits, and promoting the fairness of wage distribution are potential strategies to ameliorate low levels of job satisfaction.

Research on the improvement path of job satisfaction of doctors in a tertiary public hospital in Yinchuan city from the perspective of psychological contract

“…Doctors' job satisfaction refers to a kind of subjective feeling of doctors, which is affected by factors such as individual internal subjective feelings and external working environment, and is an attitude expression of a combination of various factors. In this paper, doctors' job satisfaction refers to the subjective feelings and attitudes of six dimensions including interpersonal relationships, work itself, working conditions, training and promotion, compensation and benefits, and leadership and management [5,7].…”