Work engagement and related factors among dentists in Ministry of Public Health hospitals, southern Thailand
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The purpose of this cross-sectional analytical study was to determine the level of work engagement and its related factors among all 760 hospital dentists under the Ministry of Public Health in southern Thailand from March to December 2020. The online questionnaire used for data collection included 3 parts: general information, work information and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-9 (UWES-9). The ordinal logistic regression was used to analyze the association among work engagement and related factors at a statistical value < 0.05. The response rate was 55.7%. The study group had moderate, high, and low levels of work engagement which were 65.0%, 25.8% and 9.2%, respectively, and a moderate mean score was 3.99±1.011 out of 6. The work engagement related factors were instrumental quality (adjusted OR=1.76, 95% CI=1.13-2.75), number of patients per week (adjusted OR=1.75, 95% CI=1.16-2.66) gender (adjusted OR=1.58, 95% CI=1.00-2.49), and age (adjusted OR=1.04, 95% CI=1.00-1.07).
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