Methodical approach to the construction of the index of doctors' confidence in their activities

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of developing a state policy to increase the attractiveness of a doctor's work and counteract professional burnout. The trust of doctors in their work determines the state of human resources in the field of healthcare. The development of an approach to the organization of monitoring the trust of doctors will allow identifying organizations at an early stage in which there is a decrease in the confidence of doctors in their activities. The purpose of the study is to develop and test a methodological approach to calculating the index of trust of doctors. To construct the index, a list of statements was developed that are applicable for a comprehensive assessment of the doctor's activities. The approbation of the developed approach was carried out as part of a pilot sociological study in which 346 doctors from different regions of Russia took part. The significance of the statements used in the assessment was confirmed by binary probit regression. The analysis made it possible to calculate the index of doctors' trust for the obtained sample, equal to 62,5%. The results of the study can be used to assess the attitude of doctors to their activities both at the regional level and at the level of individual organizations. The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation can use the results obtained to develop approaches to increasing the attractiveness of the medical profession to increase the public health of Russia.