This research intends to get grasp of workload and gratification level of diabetes educators who work for some pre-selected hospitals-those in 2006 been validated by the Bureau of Health Promotion for enhancing health of diabetic victims.
Henceforth, 116 hospitals are selected.However, among them, 10 clinics, 8 health centers, one hospital(located in Martsu) as well as 12 hospitals that refuse
consultation are precluded from the investigation pool. Therefore, 85 hospitals are under investigation in the end.
Next, The mechanism of this investigation is basically by means of analysis of structure-devised questionnaire sheets that filled out by these educators. In sum, 191 questionaire sheets are delivered, 163 are returned but only 155 of them are deemed effective-that is, with return rate around 85.3%. The data been collected is analyzed through the statistic software SPSS 10.0. The outcome of our
investigation reveals some important information:
A. In general, work stress of diabetes educators locate in the range between the levels ?mimor? and ?mederate? whereas the top 5 sources of work stress come from mainly two perspectives -workload? and ?academic research?.
B. Regarding work gratification level, from global viewpoint, the diabetes
educators provide the scores between ?fair? and ?satisfactory?. Among the four gratification indexes been evaluated,?content of work? and ?social relationship?
attain higher scores. On the other side, ?payment? and ?salary/workload ratio?
get poorer appreciation.
C. As for global work stress, it is found that those educators work for regional hospitals have heavier workload than their counterparts who work in Medicine Centers. This difference can be identified as significant through statistic F-test, since the H0 hypothesis can be well rejected. In contrast, difference of other factors such as ?personal background? and ?perception of stress? are found non- significant between groups of educators through similar statistic test. It represents that educators with various backgrounds have no considerable correlation with the work stress they aware of.
D. When consider the global gratification level, in general speaking, university- graduated educators give higher marks than those graduated from technical schools, those receive on-job-training programs are more satisfactory than those yet taking any training, whereas full time diabetes educators usually are more comfortable than those been assigned with additional tasks.
E. Work stress and gratification level is found negatively correlative. In other words, increasing work stress usually couples ith decreasing gratification level.
F. Through duplicate regression, it is found that in most scenarios the
predictability of ?background information? to work stress is not significant through
t-test. It is also found that only two aspects-hospital ranking? and ?CDE work experience? have significant prediction capacity.
G. The predictability when couples ?personal background information?
and ?global work stress? to gratification level is also surveyed hrough schemes of duplicate regression. It is found that ?education level?,?amount of cases been assigned? and ?global work stress? all expose significant prediction capacity. In more detail scope, ?global work stress? is negative correlative with the
gratification level. In contrast, ?education level? and ?amount of cases been assigned? show positive correlative relationship. Finally, ?global work stress? has the most impact on gratification level.
