Professional Satisfaction of Medical Workers during the Pandemic (on the Materials of the Content Analysis of In-Depth Interviews)
Research Article
Acknowledgments
The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research within the framework of the scientific project No. 20-04-60466.
How to Cite
Mosienko O.S., Nor-Arevyan O.A., Cherevkova A.I. Professional Satisfaction of Medical Workers during the Pandemic (on the Materials of the Content Analysis of In-Depth Interviews). Humanities of the South of Russia. 2022. Vol. 11. No. 3. P. 84-99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2022.3.7 (in Russ.).
Abstract
Objective of the study is to identify the opinions and assessments of medical professionals regarding the prestige of the medical profession, working conditions and professional burnout through the possibilities of content analysis of in-depth interviews.
The methodological basis of the research. The content analysis of 40 text transcripts of in-depth interviews with medical workers of the Rostov region was carried out. The sample is solid. The indicators were recorded in the coding cards. The following categories of analysis are highlighted: perception of the prestige of the medical profession, a sense of professional burnout, satisfaction with working conditions, job satisfaction, professional status, the attitude of patients to doctors before the COVID-2019 pandemic, the attitude of patients during the COVID-2019 pandemic, the level of worry and anxiety, associations of physicians with the words “Red Zoneˮ.
Research results. Content analysis on this topic made it possible to identify and analyze the opinions of doctors and average medical staff of the Rostov region, expressed in in-depth interviews, and draw conclusions about the presence or absence of satisfaction with working conditions, professional status, about assessing the prestige of the medical profession, about changing the nature of the patient-physician relationship, about sources, causes and consequences of worry, anxiety and professional burnout.
Prospects of the study. The theoretical conclusions and practical results obtained can be further used in the course of the study of the prestige of the medical profession, the professional and social status of medical workers, their working conditions, professional burnout within such scientific branches as the sociology of professions, the sociology of medicine and healthcare.
Keywords:
medicine, health care, medical worker, doctor, nursing staff, prestige of the medical profession, professional position, working conditions, professional burnout, content analysis, in-depth interview
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Petrikov, S. S., Kholmogorova, A. B., Suroyegina, A. Yu., Mikita, O. Yu., Roy, A. P., Rakhmanina, A. A. (2020). Occupational burnout, symptoms of emotional trouble and distress among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 epidemic. Konsul’tativnaya psikhologiya i psikhoterapiya, 28, 2 (108), 8-45. (In Russian).
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Janus, E., Filar-Mierzwa, K. (2019). Prestige of selected medical professions in the opinion of representatives of these professions. Medycyna Pracy, 70 (5), 587-595, doi: 10.13075/mp.5893.00863. (In Polish).
Kang, L., Ma S., Chen, M., et al. (2020). Impact on mental health and perceptions of psychological care among medical and nursing staff in Wuhan during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease outbreak: A cross-sectional study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.03.028. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159120303482.
Krom, I. L., Erugina, M. V., Eremina, M. G., Kovalev, E. P., Bochkareva, G. N., Grigoreva, E. A., Vlasova, M. V. (2022). The typology of social predictors as a research tool of studying personnel crisis in russian health care: The publications review. Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny, 30 (1), 148-152, doi: 10.32687/0869-866X-2022-30-1-148-152.
Mohos, A., Varga, A., Markó-Kucsera, M., Kalabay, L., Torzsa, P. (2019). Family medicine as a career. Medical students' attitudes and vocational choice motivations. Lege Artis Medicinae, 29 (12), 627-634, doi: 10.33616/LAM.29.060 (In Portuguese).
Olsson, C., Kalén, S., Ponzer, S. (2019). Sociological analysis of the medical field: Using Bourdieu to understand the processes preceding medical doctors’ specialty choice and the influence of perceived status and other forms of symbolic capital on their choices. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 24 (3), 443-457, doi: 10.1007/s10459-018-09872-3.
Vyalykh, N.A., Nor-Arevyan, O.A., Posukhova, O.Yu., Mosienko, O.S., Cherevkova, A.I. (2021). Methodological matrix for sociological study of social well-being of the professional medical community during a complex epidemiological situation. Turismo: Estudos & Práticas (UERN), 01, 1-12. Available at: http://geplat.com/rtep/index.php/tourism/article/view/875.
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Received: 18.05.2022
Accepted: 05.08.2022
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Mosienko, O. S., Nor-Arevyan, O. A., & Cherevkova, A. I. (2022). Professional Satisfaction of Medical Workers during the Pandemic (on the Materials of the Content Analysis of In-Depth Interviews). Humanities of the South of Russia, 11(3), 84-99. https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2022.3.7
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SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN MODERN SOCIETY
