PROFESSIONAL WELL-BEING AND RESILIENCE OF DOCTORS AND MEDICAL STAFF

Abstract

Background. The well-being of doctors and medical staff is vital to their professional activities. Resilience is recognized as a key condition for well-being and is an important factor in socionomic professions. In medical practice, resilience helps doctors and medical staff cope with difficulties and overcome burnout.
 Purpose. The aim is to study the relationship of well-being in the professional activities of doctors and medical personnel with resilience and conditions supporting it.
 Methods. A group of 178 medical workers, including doctors, secondary and junior medical personnel, was studied. The resilience scale provided a general indicator of resilience and its components, the WHO well-being scale assessed well-being over the past two weeks. The attractiveness of the profession, the mood it evokes and the satisfaction of the individual with the need for security were evaluated. The relationships between the variables were studied using Spearman correlation coefficients, taking into account the position and multiple regression analysis.
 Results. Significant positive correlations were found between well-being and general resilience (r = 0,599, p < 0,01), position (r = 0,361, p < 0,01), attractiveness of the profession (r = 0,359, p < 0,01), mood (r = 0,361, p < 0,01) and satisfaction with the need for security (r = 0,159, p < 0,05).
 Conclusion. Well-being in the professional sphere of doctors and medical personnel is associated with commitment to professional activity, control and risk-taking, attractiveness of the profession, the mood that it causes, satisfaction of the need for psychological security. The results obtained confirm the consideration of resilience as a resource component of the professional well-being of doctors and medical personnel. Strategies for ensuring well-being in the profession should take into account the practices of interventions that stimulate the identified correlates.