Job satisfaction and work stress among physicians in Norway and Germany-A cross-sectional study.

Purpose: Physicians' health and wellbeing are important albeit often neglected quality indicators of health care systems. The aims of the study were to compare job satisfaction and work stress among doctors in Germany and Norway, and to identify predictors for job satisfaction.

Methods: All active physicians in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (N = 13,304) and a nationwide sample of Norwegian physicians (N = 2,316) were surveyed in a cross-sectional design in 2021.

Changes in weekly working hours, proportion of doctors with hours above the limitations of European Working Time Directive (EWTD) and time spent on direct patient care for doctors in Norway from 2016 to 2019: a study based on repeated surveys.

Objectives: To compare the total weekly working hours, proportions with work hours above the limitations of European working time directive (EWTD) and time spent on direct patient care in 2016 and 2019 for doctors working in different job positions in Norway.

Design: Repeated postal surveys in 2016 and 2019.

Setting: Norway.

Physician participation in quality improvement work- interest and opportunity: a cross-sectional survey.

Background: Lack of physician involvement in quality improvement threatens the success and sustainability of quality improvement measures. It is therefore important to assess physicians´ interests and opportunities to be involved in quality improvement and their experiences of such participation, both in hospital and general practice.

Methods: A cross-sectional postal survey was conducted on a representative sample of physicians in different job positions in Norway in 2019.

Changes in work stress among doctors in Norway from 2010 to 2019: a study based on repeated surveys.

Objectives: To explore and discuss the changes in the levels of work stress for Norwegian doctors in different job positions (hospital doctors, general practitioners (GPs), private practice specialists, doctors in academia) from 2010 to 2019.

Design: Repeated questionnaire surveys in 2010, 2016 and 2019, where samples were partly overlapping.

Setting: Norway.

Why are doctors opting out of general practice?

Background: There has been a sustained focus on the lack of recruitment to general practice in Norwegian politics, media and research. We have little knowledge of the reasons that have been prominent for doctors who have actively opted out of general practice. We therefore wished to investigate what types of doctors choose not to work in general practice and why.

Changes in job satisfaction among doctors in Norway from 2010 to 2017: a study based on repeated surveys.

Objective: To assess job satisfaction for different categories of Norwegian doctors from 2010 to 2016-2017.

Design: Cross-sectional surveys in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016-2017 of partly overlapping samples.

Setting: Norway from 2010 to 2016-2017.

How do doctors experience the interactions among professional fulfilment, organisational factors and quality of patient care? A qualitative study in a Norwegian hospital.

Objectives: Doctors increasingly experience high levels of burnout and loss of engagement. To address this, there is a need to better understand doctors' work situation. This study explores how doctors experience the interactions among professional fulfilment, organisational factors and quality of patient care.

Doctors as targets of unwanted sexual attention.

Bakgrunn: #MeToo-kampanjen satte søkelys på forekomst av uønsket seksuell oppmerksomhet innenfor ulike yrkesgrupper. Vi ønsket å undersøke uønsket seksuell oppmerksomhet rettet mot leger, og så på omfang og endring over tid i to representative datasett innsamlet før kampanjen.

Materiale Og Metode: I 1993 og 2014/15 ble det gjennomført spørreundersøkelser om arbeidsforhold, inkludert opplevd uønsket seksuell oppmerksomhet, i representative utvalg av norske leger.

Perceived bullying among Norwegian doctors in 1993, 2004 and 2014-2015: a study based on cross-sectional and repeated surveys.

Objectives: To examine 12-month prevalence of perceived bullying at work for doctors in different job categories and medical disciplines in 1993, 2004 and 2014-2015, and personality traits, work-related and health-related factors associated with perceived workplace bullying.

Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire surveys in 1993, 2004 and 2014-2015 where the 2004 and the 2012-2015 samples are partly overlapping.

Setting: Norway.

Changes in prevalence of workplace violence against doctors in all medical specialties in Norway between 1993 and 2014: a repeated cross-sectional survey.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether reported prevalence of experienced threats, real acts of violence and debilitating fear of violence among Norwegian doctors have increased over the last two decades.

Design: Repeated cross-sectional survey.

Setting: All healthcare levels and medical specialties in Norway.

Doctors' working hours and time spent on patient care in the period 1994 - 2014.

Background: There is always a keen interest in the qualitative and quantitative aspects of doctors’ working hours. In this study developments are described in terms of total weekly working hours and time spent on direct patient care from 1994 to 2014 by doctors working in different job categories and medical disciplines in Norway.

Material And Method: All data has been obtained from LEFO’s reference panel of doctors, a near representative sample of approximately 1 600 practising doctors who have been followed up with questionnaires every second year since 1994.

Weekly working hours for Norwegian hospital doctors since 1994 with special attention to postgraduate training, work-home balance and the European working time directive: a panel study.

Objectives: To examine the weekly working hours of Norwegian hospital doctors from 1994 to 2012 with special emphasis on the quality of postgraduate training and work-home balance, and in relation to the requirements of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD).

Design: Panel study based on postal questionnaires.

Setting: Norway.

Differences in sickness absence between self-employed and employed doctors: a cross-sectional study on national sample of Norwegian doctors in 2010.

Background: Doctors have a low prevalence of sickness absence. Employment status is a determinant in the multifactorial background of sickness absence. The effect of doctors' employment status on sickness absence is unexplored.

General practitioners' views on drug-assisted rehabilitation.

Background: The Norwegian model for opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) "Drug-assisted rehabilitation" (DAR) is a cross-disciplinary tripartite model for the treatment of opioid dependence. The model requires collaboration among GPs, the social services and the specialist health services. To some degree it restricts the doctor's professional autonomy.

Changes in alcohol drinking patterns and their consequences among Norwegian doctors from 2000 to 2010: a longitudinal study based on national samples.

Aims: To describe changes in the patterns and consequences of alcohol use among Norwegian doctors from 2000 to 2010.

Methods: Longitudinal study based on data from nation-wide postal surveys in 2000 and 2010 among a representative sample of 682 doctors in Norway. The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) was used to measure the changes in drinking patterns (frequency of drinking, frequency of heavy drinking and quantity of drinking), symptoms of alcohol dependence and adverse consequences of drinking.

Job stress and job satisfaction of physicians in private practice: comparison of German and Norwegian physicians.

Purpose: This study examined job satisfaction and job stress of German compared to Norwegian physicians in private practice.

Methods: A representative sample of physicians in private practice of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (N = 414) and a nationwide sample of Norwegian general practitioners and private practice specialists (N = 340) were surveyed in a cross-sectional design in 2010. The questionnaire comprised the standard instruments "Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS)" and a short form of the "Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire (ERI)".

The working hours of general practitioners 2000-2008.

Background: There is little reliable information available on the working hours of general practitioners (GPs). The purpose of our study is to describe the development of weekly working hours of Norwegian general practitioners in the period from 2000 to 2008, as well as the length of their patient lists and their perceived workload.

Material And Methods: General practitioners in the reference panel of the Research Institute of the Norwegian Medical Association have reported their weekly working hours for 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008, and the length of their patient lists for 2002 and 2008.

Work hours and self rated health of hospital doctors in Norway and Germany. A comparative study on national samples.

Background: The relationship between extended work hours and health is well documented among hospital doctors, but the effect of national differences in work hours on health is unexplored. The study examines the relationship between work hours and self rated health in two national samples of hospital doctors.

Methods: The study population consisted of representative samples of 1,260 German and 562 Norwegian hospital doctors aged 25-65 years (N = 1,822) who received postal questionnaires in 2006 (Germany) and 2008 (Norway).

Study-related health and behavior patterns of medical students: A longitudinal study.

Background: Little is known about specific health risks and resources and their development influencing medical students' stress.

Aim: To evaluate the development of quality of life and study-related behavior and experience patterns among medical students.

Methods: Data were collected in the first (n = 112 of 182 in 2006) and the fourth semesters (n = 164 of 176 in 2008).

Healthcare reforms and job satisfaction among doctors in Norway.

Aims: To examine the trend in job satisfaction from 2000 to 2006 among Norwegian doctors, and the possible impact of two comprehensive healthcare reforms on doctors' job satisfaction.

Methods: The study population consisted of a representative sample of approximately 1,600 Norwegian doctors, selected from nationwide repeated postal surveys in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006. The questionnaires contained the validated 10-item job satisfaction scale (JSS).