Work Satisfaction of Clinical Social Workers Participating in the National Health Science Corps Loan Repayment Program

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  • March 17, 2020
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  • Yun, Jonathan
    • Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program
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  • BACKGROUND: Job satisfaction among clinical social workers participating in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program (LRP) is important for retention, absenteeism, and burnout. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine how the overall work satisfaction of social workers participating in the NHSC LRP differs according to 1. Demographic and practice-level characteristics and 2. Different aspects of work satisfaction. METHODS: Using data routinely collected by the Practice Sights Retention Collaborative from clinical social workers participating in the NHSC LRP, we performed “chunk” analysis to calculate the odds a social worker would have high overall work satisfaction using: 1. demographic variables; 2. practice-level variables; and 3. both demographic and practice-level variables. In a separate model, we calculated the odds of high overall work satisfaction using six satisfaction constructs as co-variates: 1. Work-life Time Balance; 2. Mission and Values; 3. Community Integration; 4. Staff; 5. Administration & Practice Stability; and 6. CompensationRESULTS: Survey response rate was 75%. Among the 113 clinical social workers in our sample, social workers at integrated care sites had lesser odds of having high overall work satisfaction (adjusted OR: 0.12, p = 0.01) compared to clinical social workers practicing at non-integrated care sites. In the model containing all six satisfaction constructs, each 1-point increase in satisfaction with administration and community integration was associated with 2.96 and 2.48 greater odds, respectively, of having high overall work satisfaction (p<0.05, for both). CONCLUSION: Practicing at an integrated care site was negatively associated with low overall work satisfaction among a sample of clinical social workers participating in the NHSC LRP. Satisfaction with administration and community involvement, on the other hand, were positively associated with high overall work satisfaction.
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  • Track: HC&P
  • Paper type: Research or research design
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  • Feltner, Cynthia
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  • Pathman, Donald
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  • Master of Public Health
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  • Public Health
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 2018
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