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    The Level of Job Satisfaction and Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction of Emergency Medicine Residents in Ethiopia: a Crosssectional Study from October- November, 2023
    (Addis Ababa University, 2024-04-05) Tilahun Eskahun; Boru Yared
    Background: Human resources are a very important component of a health system for delivering health services, and health institutions system will have difficulty to function effectively without having a well-supported health workers who are also sufficient in numbers, well trained, and motivated. Job satisfaction of employees can be defined as the level to which employees have a positive feeling towards global or specific aspect of job of an organization is a very important aspect in the health system. Methodology: A multiple institution based cross-sectional study design was used to collect primary data from study participants. Calculated sample size was 132 and the sample size was proportionally allocated among the 5 institutions and non-probability consecutive sampling method with proportional allocation was used. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaire online using google form. Finally descriptive analysis and also association of the independent and dependent variables was done using either frequency, mean, median, percentages, Pearson’s correlation or Mann Whittney test as appropriate using SPSS version 27.0. Result: a total of 115 residents were involved in the study. The overall mean total job satisfaction was -2.50(SD=3.987) (score ranges b/n -15 and 15) and the overall level of job satisfaction is -2.50 (41.7%). The result also showed that only 34(29.6%) of study participants were satisfied. All the predictor variables administrative authority, clinical authority, availability of resource, work place relationship and lifestyle had significant and strong association with job satisfaction with p values < 0.01. Conclusion: The level of job satisfaction of residents was found to be low. Therefore, further studies are needed to know if this level of job satisfaction is having an impact on the residency program and also corrective actions should be taken by responsible bodies to increase the job satisfaction of emergency residents.