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Table 1 Professional identity descriptions among physicians in hospital and primary health care settings. The proportions of physicians who answered “very well” or “quite well” to the question “How well do the following descriptions of the work of a physician match you as a physician?”, and the corresponding associations (odds ratios, primary health care as a reference group)

From: Team players and helpers – describing professional identity among finnish physicians in a cross-sectional study

Description

Hospital

Health care centre

Odds Ratio (95% CI)*

p-value*

(n = 2,148)

(n = 992)

 

%

%

  

Member of a working group/team

90.0

84.2

1.85 (1.47–2.34)

< 0.001

Helper

80.0

87.8

0.61 (0.49–0.76)

< 0.001

Health expert

73.0

88.5

0.37 (0.30–0.46)

< 0.001

Listener

66.3

89.6

0.24 (0.19–0.30)

< 0.001

Teacher

60.0

54.1

1.20 (1.02–1.40)

0.025

Developer

54.6

44.8

1.36 (1.16–1.59)

< 0.001

Healer

49.6

50.9

0.87 (0.74–1.02)

0.079

Physician by calling

48.6

53.2

0.84 (0.72–0.99)

0.034

Prescriber of medication

46.3

72.6

0.36 (0.31–0.43)

< 0.001

Provider of comfort

46.0

70.5

0.39 (0.33–0.46)

< 0.001

Prioritiser

45.3

52.1

0.86 (0.74–1.01)

0.063

Pillar of support

40.3

54.4

0.56 (0.47–0.65)

< 0.001

Health educator

40.0

69.3

0.31 (0.27–0.37)

< 0.001

Civil servant

35.5

41.8

0.73 (0.63–0.86)

< 0.001

Coach

34.0

35.0

0.84 (0.71–0.99)

0.034

Researcher

33.3

12.4

3.41 (2.75–4.22)

< 0.001

Someone engaged in social work

32.0

57.0

0.40 (0.34–0.47)

< 0.001

Director

31.5

25.2

1.19 (1.00-1.42)

0.053

Innovator

29.9

22.6

1.28 (1.06–1.53)

0.009

Someone issuing certificates

27.3

64.2

0.23 (0.20–0.27)

< 0.001

Production line worker

26.3

29.5

0.91 (0.76–1.08)

0.273

Technician

25.7

11.3

2.70 (2.15–3.39)

< 0.001

Gatekeeper

24.5

45.3

0.43 (0.36–0.50)

< 0.001

Family physician

17.3

62.9

0.12 (0.10–0.15)

< 0.001

Provider of spiritual support

15.8

28.5

0.46 (0.38–0.56)

< 0.001

Entrepreneur

11.2

6.0

1.63 (1.20–2.20)

0.002

Shaman

3.5

4.5

0.74 (0.50–1.09)

0.132

  1. *Binary logistic regression analysis (refence group health care centre) adjusted for gender and graduation year