Factors influencing the professional working performance of dentists at community hospitals of the public health region 12

Abstract

This cross sectional descriptive research aimed to study factors influencing the professional working performance of dentists at community hospitals of the public health region 12 by using 160 subjects (n=160), randomly selected by systematically random sampling. Data distribution was performed by descriptive statistics and data were statistically analyzed by using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Results showed that sex (female) and educational level (bachelor’s degree) did not influenced on the professional working performance of the dentists. Age and marital status (couple) had low negative influence (r= -0.234, pvalue=0.003 and r= -0.198, p-value=0.01, respectively), while income and experience had low positive influence on the professional working performance of the dentists (r=0.197, pvalue=0.013 and r=0.292, p-value=0.01, respectively). The motivation factors and hygiene factors had moderately positive influence on the performance of core competencies of the dentists (r=0.536, p-value<0.001 and r=0.458, p-value <0.001, respectively). Overall, organization support had high positive influence on the performance of core competencies of the dentists (r=0.830, p-value<0.001). Factors influenced the performance of the dentists were work condition (p-value=0.001), achievement (p-value<0.001), work status (pvalue=0.001), responsibility (p-value=0.001), technical supervision and policy (pvalue<0.001), advancement (p-value<0.001) and interpersonal-relationship (p-value<0.001). These seven factors could together predict the professional working performance of the dentists at community hospitals of the public health region 12, at a level of 56.0%. Problems and obstacles arising from the study involved the ability of dentists was the material support (43.1%), motivation (31.0%), and core competency (25.8%).