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Hedayatollah Asgari, Maryam Kheirmand, Mohsen Rohani, Samaneh Sadoughi, Zeinab Malekpour,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (24 2012)
Abstract
Background and Aim: Job satisfaction is one of the most important factors in maintenance of a professional person and the job success, increasing the personal efficiency and the quality of services. On the other hand, it is a tool in the hands of managers in order to maintain the staff in their jobs. The aim of this descriptive study was to investigate the satisfaction of physicians and midwives participating in the family physician scheme with the plan.
Materials and Methods: The study population was made up of 221 physicians and 144 midwifes. The tool was an author made questionnaire certified by experts as a standard, valid and reliable scale via content validity measurements through a pilot study.
Results: The average satisfaction of physicians and midwives was 44.34% while the highest satisfaction was 65% with the location of services and the lowest was 30.6% with the financial issues. In relation to the financial affairs, physicians were more dissatisfied than midwives, so satisfactions were increased by the increase in the amount of salaries.
Conclusion: Over 4 years of implementation of family physician plan, the physicians and midwives satisfaction was shown to be still low. It is necessary to consider re-programming in the scheme in order to increase the amount of payments and create more motivational factors for physicians as well as to reduce working hours for midwives and establish appropriate levels of payments for them.
Zahra Mansurnejad, Mokhtar Malekpour, Amir Ghamarani,
Volume 18, Issue 3 (11-2020)
Abstract
Background and Aim: Childhood and adolescent externalizing behavior is a serious public health issue, and the family, as an underlying factor, may play an important role in preventing or reducing behavioral problems in childhood and adolescence. The aim of this study was to investigate the effective of parental autonomy support training on school students' externalizing behavior.
Materials and Methods: Thirty school students who had got high scores in the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) were selected and randomly assigned to an experimental (N=15) or control (N=15) group. Mothers of the pupils in the experimental group participated in seven 90-minute sessions receiving parental autonomy intervention training; the control group did not received any training. The CBCLs were completed before and after the intervention and compared. The data were analyzed using the multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA).
Results: Multivariate covariance analysis showed a statistically significant difference between the scores of the experimental and control groups (p <0.01, F = 21.123, Wilk's Lambda = 0.266). However, no significant difference was found between the two groups as regards aggression, breaking the law and externalized behavior. Further analysis of the data revealed that parental autonomy support skills training favorably influenced the school students' aggression, law-breaking and externalized behavior.
Conclusion: Based on the findings it can be concluded that parental autonomy support training can be effective in decreasing externalized behavior in school students. Hence, it is recommended to develop and implement training programs for parents and school teachers in areas of meaningful rationales, use of non-controlling language and offering meaningful choices aiming to reduce and prevent externalized behavior in school students.
