Associations between perceived institutional support, job enjoyment, and intentions to work in the United Kingdom: national questionnaire survey of first year doctors

Table 1 Strength of association between support of the Trust and doctors’ responses to 12 attitude statements

Attitude statements	Slope (Unstandardized betas with 95 % CI) ^a	P
1. Training has been of a high standard.	0.57^b (0.46, 0.66)	<0.001*
2. Educational opportunities have been good.	0.57 (0.45, 0.68)	<0.001*
3. I receive good support from senior doctors.	0.13 (0.05, 0.21)	0.016
4. I receive good support from nursing staff.	0.20 (0.12, 0.29)	0.004*
5. I receive good support from management.	0.49 (0.34, 0.64)	0.001*
6. I have found arrangements for my annual leave to be satisfactory so far.	0.32 (0.03, 0.67)	0.064
7. I have found cover for absent doctors to be satisfactory so far.	0.28 (0.20, 0.36)	0.002*
8. I have received good cover from senior doctors when working outside normal hours.	0.17 (0.03, 0.38)	0.075
9. I work longer hours than I think I should.	−0.21 (−0.26, −0.16)	<0.001*
10. I am currently under too much pressure whilst at work.	−0.24 (−0.27, −0.21)	<0.001*
11. I am expected to perform too much routine non-medical work.	−0.30 (−0.30, −0.29)	<0.001*
12. I had to perform clinical tasks for which I was inadequately trained.	−0.06 (−0.15, 0.03)	0.126

^aAssociations are given as the slopes (betas and their 95 % CI) of relationships between the grouped median responses of doctors to each of the 12 attitude statements and the support received from the Trust (1 = Very Poor through 5 = Very Good), as estimated by least-squares linear regressions. All trends were close to linear, except for annual leave (statement 6), cover after hours (statement 8) and clinical tasks (statement 12)
^bThe slope parameter for this regression indicates that for a one unit increase in the level of perceived support from the Trust the (grouped median) level of agreement with this statement increases by 0.57 (on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 = Strongly Disagree and 5 = Strongly Agree)
*Significant after Bonferroni correction (P =0.004)

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