Factors affecting physical therapists' job satisfaction: questionnaire survey targeting first-year physical therapists.
Munetsugu Kota, Hiroyuki Kudo, Kazuhiko Okita
PMID 29706706WHAT IT FOUND
First-year physical therapists who were more satisfied reported good staff relations, salary satisfaction, seeing physical therapy as challenging, wanting direct contact with people, and respecting faculty.
These are associations, not causes.
Key findings
01The high satisfaction group had 157 people and the low satisfaction group had 36 people.
02All three questions regarding job satisfaction differed significantly between the two groups.
03Good staff relations, salary satisfaction, seeing physical therapy as challenging, wanting direct contact with people, and respecting faculty were significant explanatory variables for the satisfaction groups.
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What it does not show
The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show whether any factor caused higher satisfaction. The authors noted that first-year therapists may not accurately remember their motives for entering physical therapy. The low satisfaction group had only 36 people, and the authors noted this was small relative to the number of explanatory variables. The questionnaire was created specifically for this study. Participants were first-year physical therapists who attended a prefectural association orientation.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that better staff relations or salary satisfaction cause higher job satisfaction. The study was cross-sectional and only found associations among self-reported items.