The job satisfaction can be described as "the pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job as achieving or facilitating the achievement of one's job values", being important to consider motivation and dissatisfaction factors (1) (2). It is known that the issues related to the profession have a general concern for all professionals, so there is a need to study the satisfaction of radiographers of our country and a foreign country, taking into account the professional conditions offered by the hospital and other...

Descriptive, correlational and comparative study. A 117 question self-applied questionnaire entitled “Hospital Employee Judgment System” grouped into 10 dimensions was used to assess job satisfaction of radiographers from public imaging departments. A total of 52 valid questionnaires were collected (27 from country A and 25 from country B), interpreted and statistically analysed through descriptive statistics and t-Student, Mann-Whitney, ANOVA and Kruskall Wallis tests.

In a first phase, socio-demographic data was colleted with respect to their gender, age, home location, job location, economic status and educational level. In the second phase, the socio-professional data was collected, relating to issues that are also present in the measurement instrument, such as the type of schedule / work shift, the number of weekly hours of work, type of work contract, management functions and the professional category. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was performed in order to verify the normality of the samples, in which...

Professional satisfaction is a concept that has been defined in different ways over the years by several authors, in which the most frequent affirms that satisfaction is a synonym of motivation, attitude or positive emotional state, influencing the worker in his mental health, their behavior and presenting repercussions both at personal and organizational level. Despite the positive overall results concerning job satisfaction in both countries, strategies are suggested for enhancing radiographer job satisfaction levels for each significant dimension. Further research should be undertaken in this...

Joana Conceição (BSc), Collaborator in the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department, Health School - University of Algarve, Portugal. Email: [email protected] Luís Ribeiro (PhD), Professor in the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department, Health School - University of Algarve, Portugal. Researcher in CIDAF – University of Coimbra (Centro de Investigação do Desporto e da Atividade Física) and Member of Studies Center in Healthcare (CES-ESSUALG). Email: [email protected] António Abrantes (PhD), Professor in the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department, Health School - University of Algarve, Portugal. Researcher in CICS.NOVA...

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