Association of organizational and patient behaviors with physician well-being: A national survey in China

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268274
• Publication Date: 2022-05-31T13:35:08Z
• Authors: Xiaoyu Wang; Yimei Zhu; Fang Wang; Yuan Liang
• Keywords: Association (psychology)

This study aims to investigate the association of organizational and patient behaviors (reflecting internal external environment hospital, respectively) with physician well-being. A national cross-sectional survey was conducted in 77 hospitals across seven provinces China between July 2014 April 2015. Physician well-being assessed job satisfaction, career regret happiness. Organizational were fairness, leadership attention team interaction; trust unreasonable requests from patients. Of a sample 3,159 physicians, 1,788 men (56.6%) 1,371 women (43.4%). Overall, positive reported by physicians relatively low. Negative including lower attention, interaction associated satisfaction life higher regret. The exhibited some gender differences, while no clear difference found for relationship Given importance healthcare system, interventions improving hospital environments (e.g., trust) may benefit