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Table 1 Characteristics of participants

From: Job satisfaction of the primary healthcare providers with expanded roles in the context of health service integration in rural China: a cross-sectional mixed methods study

Characteristics, n (%)

Overall

Physicians providing clinic services only

Public health workers

Physicians with expanded roles

Nurses with expanded roles

P

Gender

 Male

404 (35.28%)

44 (39.64%)

304 (44.70%)

19 (10.38%)

34 (23.45%)

< 0.00 1

 Female

741 (64.72%)

67 (60.36%)

376 (55.29%)

164 (89.62%)

111 (76.55%)

 

Age

 < 25

54 (4.73%)

4 (3.67%)

24 (3.53%)

18 (9.94%)

4 (2.74%)

< 0.00 1

 25–34

335 (29.36%)

36 (33.03%)

180 (26.47%)

73 (40.33%)

41 (28.08%)

 

 35–44

546 (47.85%)

57 (52.29%)

337 (49.56%)

69 (38.12%)

75 (51.37%)

 

 45–54

157 (13.76%)

9 (8.26%)

104 (15.29%)

18 (9.94%)

20 (13.70%)

 

 ≥ 55

49 (4.29%)

3 (2.76%)

35 (5.15%)

3 (1.66%)

6 (4.11%)

 

Educational background

 Bachelor or above

438 (38.19%)

39 (35.13%)

275 (40.38%)

66 (35.87%)

52 (35.62%)

0.64 2

 Junior college

481 (41.94%)

46 (41.44%)

272 (39.94%)

85 (46.19%)

64 (43.83%)

 

 High school or below

228 (19.88%)

26 (23.42%)

134 (19.67%)

33 (17.93%)

30 (20.55%)

 

Professional status

 Senior/deputy senior

18 (1.58%)

1 (0.92%)

13 (1.92%)

3 (1.64%)

–

< 0.00 1

 Intermediate

398 (34.88%)

22 (20.18%)

254 (37.46%)

61 (33.33%)

50 (34.25%)

 

 Primary

505 (44.26%)

51 (46.79%)

290 (42.77%)

83 (45.35%)

74 (50.68%)

 

 Lower than primary

220 (19.28%)

35 (32.11%)

121 (17.85%)

36 (19.67%)

22 (15.07%)

 

Employment status

 Temporary

876 (76.17%)

79 (71.17%)

558 (81.94%)

109 (59.24%)

111 (76.03%)

< 0.00 1

 Permanent

274 (23.83%)

32 (28.83%)

123 (18.06%)

75 (40.76%)

35 (23.97%)

 

Hours worked per week

 Total

49.76 (9.73)

47.73 (7.43)

50.17 (10.03)

49.44 (9.93)

50.30 (10.02)

 

 < 40

26 (2.36%)

4 (3.74%)

10 (1.54%)

9 (5.06%)

2 (1.42%)

0.02 7

 40–56

980 (89.01%)

100 (93.46%)

578 (88.79%)

153 (85.95%)

126 (89.36%)

 

 ≥ 57

95 (8.63%)

3 (2.80%)

63 (9.68)

16 (8.99%)

13 (9.22%)

 

Monthly income (CNY)

 Total

4033.08 (1463.78)

3747.66 (1245.55)

4103.79 (1465.87)

3823.07 (1517.57)

4189.14 (1473.90)

 

 < 3 000

285 (26.56%)

37 (36.63%)

160 (25.04%)

50 (28.41%)

31 (22.46%)

0.00 2

 3 000–3 999

204 (19.01%)

16 (15.84%)

110 (17.21%)

43 (24.43%)

33 (23.91%)

 

 4 000–4 999

233 (21.71%)

29 (28.71%)

150 (23.47%)

29 (16.48%)

23 (16.67%)

 

 ≥ 5 000

351 (32.71%)

19 (18.81%)

219 (34.27%)

54 (30.68%)

51 (36.96%)

 

Work autonomy

 Feel high autonomy

714 (62.47%)

69 (62.16%)

433 (63.86%)

109 (59.24%)

89 (61.38%)

0.69 3

 Feel low autonomy

429 (37.53%)

42 (37.84%)

245 (36.13%)

75 (40.76%)

56 (38.62%)

 

Proportion of the working time spent on public health

 Total (%)

68.14 (41.68)

0

100

29.01 (23.98)

31.81 (25.35)

< 0.00 1

 < 20

276 (24.08%)

111 (100%)

–

82 (44.56%)

59 (40.41%)

 

 20–40

81 (7.07%)

–

–

49 (26.63%)

32 (21.92%)

 

 40–60

52 (4.54%)

–

–

24 (13.04%)

28 (19.18%)

 

 60–80

29 (2.53%)

–

–

14 (7.61%)

15 (10.27%)

 

 > 80

708 (61.78%)

–

318 (100%)

15 (8.15%)

12 (8.22%)

 

Job satisfaction

 Satisfied

875 (77.37%)

84 (75.67%)

519 (77.58%)

137 (74.86%)

113 (79.02%)

0.79 3

 Dissatisfied

256 (22.63%)

27 (24.32%)

150 (22.42%)

46 (25.14%)

30 (20.98%)

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