Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design
2.2. Instrumentation
2.3. Statistical Data Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
Limitations
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Pandemic Hospital (HP) | Non-Pandemic Hospital (HNP) |
---|---|---|
n (%) | n (%) | |
Gender | ||
Male | 138 (57.7) | 78 (47.6) |
Female | 101 (42.3) | 85 (51.8) |
Age | ||
20–30 | 89 (37.2) | 95 (57.9) |
31–40 | 97 (40.6) | 43 (26.2) |
41–50 | 49 (20.5) | 22 (13.4) |
50+ | 4 (1.7) | 4 (2.4) |
Marital Status | ||
Married | 151 (64.0) | 71 (44.9) |
Single | 85 (36.0) | 87 (54.9) |
Education | ||
High School | 31 (13.0) | 20 (12.3) |
University | 48 (20.2) | 61 (37.4) |
Graduate Education | 159 (66.5) | 82 (50.3) |
Job Position | ||
Physician | 41 (17.2) | 27 (16.8) |
Nurse | 107 (45.0) | 28 (17.4) |
Health Technician | 27 (11.3) | 49 (30.4) |
Auxiliary Staff | 63 (26.5) | 57 (35.4) |
Work Experience | ||
1–5 years | 71 (30.2) | 75 (47.5) |
6–10 years | 69 (29.4) | 32 (20.3) |
11–15 years | 43 (18.3) | 22 (13.9) |
16–20 years | 31 (13.2) | 23 (14.6) |
21+ years | 21 (8.9) | 6 (3.8) |
Working Hours (Overtime) | ||
1–5 h/week | 55 (23.0) | 61 (37.2) |
6–10 h/week | 47 (19.7) | 38 (23.2) |
11–15 h/week | 40 (16.7) | 26 (15.9) |
16+ hours/week | 97 (40.6) | 39 (23.8) |
Working Place | ||
Services | 98 (41.9) | 28 (18.1) |
Emergency | 80 (34.2) | 30 (19.4) |
Diagnosis-Examination | 11 (4.7) | 38 (24.5) |
Everywhere | 45 (19.2) | 59 (38.1) |
Intent to Leave | Job Stress | Social Support | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F | Sig | F | Sig | F | Sig | |
Hospital type (HP~HNP) | 10.872 | 0.001 ** | 45.053 | <0.001 *** | 7.734 | 0.006 ** |
Age (years) | 0.017 | 0.896 | 0.320 | 0.572 | 0.002 | 0.964 |
Working hour (overtime hrs/week) | 1.126 | 0.289 | 1.544 | 0.215 | 2.884 | 0.090 |
Education level | 18.947 | <0.001 *** | 2.714 | 0.100 | 5.116 | 0.024 |
Sex | 3.168 | 0.076 | 0.060 | 0.806 | 0.520 | 0.471 |
Work experience | 0.265 | 0.607 | 1.848 | 0.175 | 0.255 | 0.614 |
Marital status | 0.596 | 0.441 | 0.001 | 0.981 | 4.556 | 0.033 * |
Working place | 10.872 | 0.001 ** | 45.053 | <0.001 *** | 7.734 | 0.006 ** |
Intent to Leave | Job Stress | Social Support | ||||
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Mean | Adjusted Mean | Mean | Adjusted Mean | Mean | Adjusted Mean | |
Non-pandemic hospital | 8.344 | 8.329 | 34.554 | 34.271 | 45.880 | 46.026 |
Pandemic hospital | 9.948 | 9.959 | 41.427 | 41.612 | 42.667 | 42.573 |
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Tabur, A.; Choudhury, A.; Emhan, A.; Mengenci, C.; Asan, O. Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19. Healthcare 2022, 10, 229. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10020229
Tabur A, Choudhury A, Emhan A, Mengenci C, Asan O. Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19. Healthcare. 2022; 10(2):229. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10020229
Chicago/Turabian StyleTabur, Ayhan, Avishek Choudhury, Abdurrahim Emhan, Cengiz Mengenci, and Onur Asan. 2022. "Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19" Healthcare 10, no. 2: 229. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10020229