Physician Genders and Work Stress at Two Hospitals

• Main Authors: Cheng-Fang Ma, 馬正芳
• Other Authors: 許怡欣
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30737883017851926195

碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 醫務管理學研究所 === 95 === The purpose of this study was to understand the work stress of physicians and analyze the relation between the genders and the work stress of physicians. The qualitative research using in this study is purposive sampling to in-depth interview 5 physicians. The interview records were then compiled into written reports. From the results of the in-depth interview, three kinds of major work stress were defined: intrinsic to work, the relationship with others, and the personal factors. The results were used to improve questionnaire. The quantitative cross-section questionnaire survey among physicians in two hospitals was conducted to investigate the relation between genders and work stress in physicians. The questionnaires were sent to 285 physicians and returned by 203 copies. The response rate was 67.7% after eliminating 10 copies of invalid questionnaire. The main findings were as follows: 1. Physicians were stressful. The measure indicated that most respondents felt a bit stressful (50.3%), 28.9% of all respondents had extremely or very high level of work stress, and only 8.0% respondents evaluted their stress as little. 2. The major sources of work stress was work responsibility. The most important stress was work responsibility while the least ones was personal relationship with others. 3. The number of male physicians was more than that of female, and 38% of the physicians were androgynous. The number of male respondents is more than that of female. As to the genders of respondents, about 38%of the respondents were androgynous, 27.6% undifferentiated, 18.8% masculine, and 15.6% feminine. In the conventional genders, masculinity is more than femininity. 4. Female physician had more in family economical sustain and masculinity in professional ability had less stress. There were significant relations between sex and family economics responsibility. Male respondents rated the higher work stress of their family economical responsibility than that of female respondents. Masculinity of professional ability appeared to have the least stress. Base on above findings, several suggestions were concluded. The health authorities should care about the stress of physician and build up the communication mechanism to take care the needs of female physicians. Hospital managers should assist physician in managing stress by themselves and resolve the manpower shortage in the hospitals. Critical research issues for future studies could be approached by the kinds of stress of physicians and development the appropriate indicators for the gender of physicians.