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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2015.6.5.337

Job Satisfaction and Relating Factors of Medical Record Technicians Working in General Hospitals  

Shin, Eun-Sook (Department of Health Administration, Joongbu University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.6, no.5, 2015 , pp. 337-346 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study has been conducted for the purpose of elucidating the factors that are affecting the job performances and how this factors have affected the satisfactory of medical record technicians working at general hospitals in south Korea. This study had 428 participants from 60 general hospitals, located in Seoul and 4 different metropolitan cities such as Incheon, Daegu, Gwangju and Daejeon. This study was performed through using the standardized self-administered questionnaires As a result, the job satisfaction had a significant relationship with the participants monthly income, age, position of the job, BMI, satisfactory in performances, consideration of changing the career, having a breakfast regular exercises, and having a perception on socioeconomic status of oneself. Particularly, the hierarchical multiple regression analysis had shown that possessing the appropriate characteristics that are required in that field of career had a high correlation with the job satisfactory. In the future, this study suggests that need of appropriate interventions of work-related characteristics are required in order to improve the job satisfaction of medical record technicians.
Keywords
General hospital; Medical record technicians; job satisfaction; work-related characteristic.health related characteristics;
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