Al Sad Sondos, Padela Aasim I
Initiative on Islam and Medicine, Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States.
Department of Emergency Medicine, HUB for Collaborative Medicine, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Avicenna J Med. 2023 Jul 3;13(2):117-129. doi: 10.1055/s-0043-1770701. eCollection 2023 Apr.
Career satisfaction and burnout among physicians are important to study because they impact healthcare quality, outcomes, and physicians' well-being. Relationships between religiosity and these constructs are underexplored, and Muslim American physicians are an understudied population. To explore relationships between career satisfaction, burnout, and callousness and Muslim physician characteristics, a questionnaire including measures of religiosity, career satisfaction, burnout, callousness, and sociodemographic characteristics was mailed to a random sample of Islamic Medical Association of North America members. Statistical relationships were explored using chi-squared tests and logistic regression models. There were 255 respondents (41% response rate) with a mean age of 52 years. Most (70%) were male, South Asian (70%), and immigrated to the United States as adults (65%). Nearly all (89%) considered Islam the most or very important part of their life, and 85% reported being somewhat or very satisfied with their career. Multivariate models revealed that workplace accommodation of religious identity is the strongest predictor of career satisfaction (odds ratio [OR]: 2.69, = 0.015) and that respondents who considered religious practice to be the most important part of their lives had higher odds of being satisfied with their career (OR: 2.21, = 0.049) and lower odds of burnout (OR: 0.51, = 0.016). Participants who felt that their religion negatively influenced their relationships with colleagues had higher odds of callousness (OR: 2.25, = 0.003). For Muslim physicians, holding their religion to be the most important part of their life positively associates with career satisfaction and lower odds of burnout and callousness. Critically, perceptions that one's workplace accommodates a physician's religious identity associate strongly with career satisfaction. In this era of attention to physician well-being, the importance of religiosity and religious identity accommodations to positive career outcomes deserves focused policy attention.
研究医生的职业满意度和职业倦怠很重要,因为它们会影响医疗质量、治疗结果以及医生的幸福感。宗教信仰与这些因素之间的关系尚未得到充分研究,而美国穆斯林医生是一个研究不足的群体。为了探究职业满意度、职业倦怠、冷漠与穆斯林医生特征之间的关系,一份包含宗教信仰、职业满意度、职业倦怠、冷漠以及社会人口统计学特征测量的问卷被邮寄给北美伊斯兰医学协会成员的随机样本。使用卡方检验和逻辑回归模型探究统计关系。共有255名受访者(回复率41%),平均年龄52岁。大多数(70%)为男性,南亚人(70%),成年后移民到美国(65%)。几乎所有(89%)的人认为伊斯兰教是他们生活中最重要或非常重要的部分,85%的人表示对自己的职业有些或非常满意。多变量模型显示,工作场所对宗教身份的包容是职业满意度的最强预测因素(优势比[OR]:2.69,P = 0.015),认为宗教活动是他们生活中最重要部分的受访者对职业感到满意的几率更高(OR:2.21,P = 0.049),职业倦怠的几率更低(OR:0.51,P = 0.016)。认为自己的宗教信仰对与同事的关系有负面影响的参与者冷漠的几率更高(OR:2.25,P = 0.003)。对于穆斯林医生来说,将宗教信仰视为生活中最重要的部分与职业满意度呈正相关,职业倦怠和冷漠的几率较低。至关重要的是,认为工作场所能包容医生宗教身份的看法与职业满意度密切相关。在这个关注医生幸福感的时代,宗教信仰和宗教身份包容对积极职业成果的重要性值得政策重点关注。