Investigation and analysis of job satisfaction of medical staff in Chongqing military hospitals

Abstract

Objective To investigate and analyze the job satisfaction of medical staff in Chongqing military hospitals.Methods Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire was used to investigate 868 medical staff in three military hospitals in Chongqing of their job satisfaction.Results Totals of 896 questionnaires were handed out and 868 were recovered,with the efficiency rate of 96.88％.The score of overall satisfaction of 868 medical staff was (68.46 ± 11.73).The three highest score for individual item was (4.09 ± 0.80) for doing things without going against conscience,(3.99 ± 0.69) for style of colleague communication and (3.90 ± 0.83) for leaders' ability of making decisions,and the three lowest score for individual item was (2.60 ± 1.12) for income and workload,(2.86 ± 1.10) for busy status and (3.00 ± 0.89) for promotion opportunity.Among job satisfaction,the score for autonomy satisfaction was the highest,which was (14.43 ± 2.39),while the score for development satisfaction was the lowest,which was (13.05 ± 2.61).Conclusions The overall job satisfaction of military medical staff was relatively low and managerial staff should take some measures accordingly. Key words: Hospital, military; Medical staff; Data collection ; Job satisfaction; Minnesota satisfaction questionnaire