Phanasathit Muthita, Charernboon Thammanard
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand.
J Med Assoc Thai. 2012 Jan;95 Suppl 1:S83-91.
To survey workload and attitude toward profession of young Thai psychiatrists.
The present study was a cross sectional descriptive survey The researcher team invented the questionnaire and posted it to 142 young Thai psychiatrists (age < or = 40 years old).
There were 82 participants. Response rate was 57.7%. The respondents were 30 males (36.6%), 52 females (63.4%), 66 general psychiatrists (80.5%), 16 child and adolescent psychiatrists (19.5%). Their mean of age was 31.4 years old. Those worked at hospitals under the Department of Mental Health (36.6%), the Office of Permanent Secretary (29.7%), universities (13.4%) and other institutions (12.2%). In office hours, the respondents had an average working hour 39.5 hours/week, while an average outpatient service working hour 15.6 hours/week. An average amount of outpatients was 89.9 patients/week. Each institution was significantly different in consultation liaison, teaching, administration, community psychiatry, and research. The percentages of young psychiatrists who agreed with the opinions "proud to be a psychiatrist", "working effectively as a psychiatrist" and "satisfied with psychiatric working system" were 98.9, 95.1 and 65.9 respectively. The average amount of outpatients (patients/week) affected job satisfaction.
The full-time working hour of young Thai psychiatrists was not different from other studies. However they had more psychiatric patients and spent more time doing outpatient service because of scarcity of psychiatrists in Thailand. Even though the number of psychiatric outpatients affected job satisfaction, most of them had positive professional attitude.
调查泰国年轻精神科医生的工作量及职业态度。
本研究为横断面描述性调查。研究团队设计了问卷，并将其发送给142名泰国年轻精神科医生（年龄≤40岁）。
有82名参与者。回复率为57.7%。受访者中男性30名（36.6%），女性52名（63.4%）；普通精神科医生66名（80.5%），儿童及青少年精神科医生16名（19.5%）。他们的平均年龄为31.4岁。工作地点在心理健康部下属医院的占36.6%，常任秘书长办公室的占29.7%，大学的占13.4%，其他机构的占12.2%。在办公时间方面，受访者平均每周工作39.5小时，而平均每周门诊服务工作时间为15.6小时。平均每周门诊患者数量为89.9人。各机构在会诊联络、教学、管理、社区精神病学及研究方面存在显著差异。同意“为成为精神科医生而自豪”“作为精神科医生工作高效”及“对精神科工作系统满意”这些观点的年轻精神科医生比例分别为98.9%、95.1%和65.9%。平均门诊患者数量（每周患者数）影响工作满意度。
泰国年轻精神科医生的全职工作时长与其他研究无异。然而，由于泰国精神科医生短缺，他们接待的精神科患者更多，花费在门诊服务上的时间也更多。尽管精神科门诊患者数量影响工作满意度，但他们中的大多数人对职业持积极态度。
