Evaluation of the job satisfaction and quality of life of emergency medicine resident

Evaluation of the Job Satisfaction and Quality of Life of Emergency Medicine Resident The aim of our study was to determine job satisfaction and quality of life of emergency medicine assistants, who received emergency medicine speciality training in Turkey, and to investigate the factors affecting job satisfaction and quality of life. This study is a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytic study. The research population consisted of 912 subjects, who got their residency training in total of 41 emergency medicine clinics between January 2018 and June 2018 in Turkey, 29 of them were the emergency medicine departments of the universities and 12 the emergency medicine departments of the Training and Research Hospitals. The study sample consisted of 708 emergency medicine residents, who have accepted to participate in the study. The calculated comprehensiveness was 69% (708/1031). The first part of the data collection form included questions about the sociodemographic characteristics and working life. The Job Satisfaction Scale was in the second part and the World Health Organization Quality of Life -Bref version (WHOQOL-BREF) in the third part of the form. The data collection forms and the consent forms, which indicated that they had accepted to participate, were sent by cargo to the emergency medicine residents of the Universities and the Training and Research Hospitals.The questionnaire form was composed of a total 105 questions, including Job Satisfaction Scale questionnaire, which was developed by Mandıracıoğlu et al. and composed of 47 questions and 9 sub-factors, and the Turkish version of the WHOQOL-BREF, which was arranged based on the 5-point Likert scale and composed of questions from 4 fields (26 questions, 2 of which were general questions) and 1 national field (1 question), and socio-demographic, working-life and private-life questions which were prepared by the researcher in line with the literature. Following the transfer of the collected data to a digital database the statistical analysis was performed. The scores obtained from the scales were evaluated with the Mann-Whitney U test, the One Way Kruskal-Wallis H Analysis, Student's t-test and Variance Analysis (ANOVA) and the significance of the difference between the ratios was assessed with the Kikare test. Pearson's Correlation Analysis was applied for the determination of the correlation between the continuous variables and Linear Regression (Stepwise) was used for further analysis. The confidence interval was accepted as 95% in all analyses and a p value of <0.05 was accepted to be significant. The mean age of the EMRs who participated in our study was 29.2± 3,5 (min:24, max:48), 64.8% ( n: 459) were male, 52.3% ( n:370 ) were married and 68.6% ( n: 486 ) were working in a university hospital, 35.5% ( n:251 ) were found to be less than 12 months. The difference between the mean scores of all assistants participated in the study, which they got from the sub-factors of the Job Satisfaction Scale and from the sub-fields of the WHOQOL-BREF Scale; and gender, number of patients examined in the night shift, income perception, satisfaction with the theoretical training, working to contribute to emergency service training individually, presence of lecturer/counselor, presence of hobby, alcohol use, antidepressant-anxiolytic drug use, satisfaction with being an emergency medical assistant and exposure to violence and affection from violence was found to be statistically significant. A positive correlation was found between job satisfaction and quality of life. In conclusion, the provision of qualified patient care in emergency departments is closely associated with the job satisfaction and quality of life of the EMRs who provide this service. Reducing the number of patients per physician, increasing the number of conselor specialists working in emergency services, increasing the time allocated to social activities, allocating time to hobbies, allocating time to works about Emergency service individually, taking measures to prevent violence, provision of improvements in income levels, efficiency of specialty trainings are the major factors that positively affect job satisfaction and quality of life. In order to examine the correlations between job satisfaction and quality of life, there is a need for larger studies in which new scales suitable for emergency medicine residents are developed. Keywords : Emergency Medicine Resident; Job Satisfaction; Quality Of Life; WHOQOL-BREF