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dc.contributor.authorNylenna, Magne
dc.contributor.authorGulbrandsen, Pål
dc.contributor.authorFørde, Reidun
dc.contributor.authorAasland, OG
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-11T11:16:26Z
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-22T11:42:12Z
dc.date.available2015-09-11T11:16:26Z
dc.date.available2015-09-22T11:42:12Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationBMC Health Services Research 2005, 5(44)nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1472-6963
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/301175
dc.description.abstractBackground: General opinion is that doctors are increasingly dissatisfied with their job, but few longitudinal studies exist. This study has been conducted to investigate a possible decline in professional and personal satisfaction among doctors by the turn of the century. Methods: We have done a survey among a representative sample of 1 174 Norwegian doctors in 2002 (response rate 73 %) and compared the findings with answers to the same questions by (most of) the same doctors in 1994 and 2000. The main outcome measures were self reported levels of life satisfaction and job satisfaction according to the Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS). Results: Most Norwegian doctors are happy. They reported an average life satisfaction of 5.21 in 1994 and 5.32 in 2002 on a scale from 1 (extremely dissatisfied) to 7 (extremely satisfied). Half of the respondents reported a very high level of general life satisfaction (a score of 6 or 7) while only one third said they would have reported this high level of satisfaction five years ago. The doctors thought that they had a higher level of job satisfaction than other comparable professional groups. The job satisfaction scale among the same doctors showed a significant increase from 1994 to 2002. Anaesthesiologists and internists reported a lower and psychiatrists and primary care doctors reported a higher level of job satisfaction than the average. Conclusion: Norwegian doctors seem to have enjoyed an increasing level of life and job satisfaction rather than a decline over the last decade. This challenges the general impression of unhappy doctors as a general and worldwide phenomenon.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherBioMed Centralnb_NO
dc.titleUnhappy doctors? A longitudinal study of life and job satisfaction among Norwegian doctors 1994-2002nb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer revieweden_GB
dc.date.updated2015-09-11T11:16:25Z
dc.source.volume5nb_NO
dc.source.journalBMC Health Services Researchnb_NO
dc.source.issue44nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1472-6963-5-44
dc.identifier.cristin405028
dc.description.localcode© 2005 Nylenna et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.nb_NO


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