Keywords:
Digital radiography, Management, Professional issues, Radiographers, CT, MR, Diagnostic procedure, Health policy and practice, Physiological studies, Quality assurance, Patterns of Care
Authors:
J. Conceição 1, L. P. Ribeiro2, A. F. Abrantes2, R. P. P. Almeida1, K. B. Azevedo3, C. A. Silva4, O. Lesyuk5; 1Faro /PT, 2Faro/PT, 3Faro, EU/PT, 4Évora/PT, 5São Brás de Alportel/PT
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2018/C-3036
Results
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 the 44 questions of the questionnaire were studied.
All the items of the measuring instrument have a non-normal distribution.
The internal consistency of the questionnaire was excelent (Cronbach's alpha = 0.96) ( Table 1 ).
In relation to the dimensions “Facility and equipment”,
“Income/Salary” ( Fig. 1),
“Top management” and “Continuous quality improvement”,
statistical significant differences were found (p<0.05) between the two countries.
Considering the other dimensions under study (“Management”,
“Human Resources”,
“Teamwork”,
“Mood” and “Quality of care”) no statistical significant differences were found (p<0.05).
The majority of radiographers (19 from country A and 19 from country B) reported a very good overall job satisfaction.