Job satisfaction and stress symptoms among personnel in child psychiatry in Norway

Abstract

In a survey conducted in child psychiatry in the northwestern part of Norway results from 115 responders were analysed. This indicated that the main predictors for job satisfaction and reduced somatic complaints were self-esteem, appointment routines and boundary attitudes, increased clinical practice, experience in psychiatry and increased years of age, postgraduate education, and work in an outpatient unit. There were strong correlations between received threats from patients and their families and increased levels of somatic complaints among professionals. Data included questions about self-esteem, boundary issues, smoking habits, psychosomatic symptoms, received threats from patients, and job satisfaction.

• Boundaries Job Satisfaction Work Stress