1. Learning climate positively influences residents’ work-related well-being
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Lases, Lenny SS, Arah, Onyebuchi A, Busch, Olivier RC, Heineman, Maas Jan, and Lombarts, Kiki MJMH
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Curriculum and Pedagogy ,Education ,Clinical Research ,Basic Behavioral and Social Science ,Behavioral and Social Science ,Climate Action ,Clinical Competence ,Cooperative Behavior ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Empathy ,Environment ,Female ,Group Processes ,Humans ,Internship and Residency ,Job Satisfaction ,Learning ,Male ,Mentors ,Netherlands ,Occupational Stress ,Reproducibility of Results ,Specialization ,Work Engagement ,Workplace ,Residency training ,Learning climate ,Residents' well-being ,Work-engagement ,Job satisfaction ,Residents’ well-being ,Medical Informatics ,Curriculum and pedagogy - Abstract
An optimal learning climate is crucial for the quality of residency training and may also improve residents' well-being and empathy. We investigated the associations of learning climate with residents' work-related well-being. A multicenter questionnaire study was performed among 271 surgery and gynaecology residents in 21 training programs from September 2012 to February 2013. Residents were asked to complete work-related well-being measurements: work engagement (Utrecht Work Engagement Scale), job and specialty satisfaction (measures from Physician Worklife Study), and physician empathy (Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy). The Dutch Residency Educational Climate Test was used to evaluate learning climate. Multivariate adjusted linear regression analyses were used to estimate associations of learning climate with work-related well-being measures. Well-being measures were completed by 144 residents (53.1%). Learning climate was evaluated by 193 residents, yielding 9.2 evaluations per training program on average. Overall learning climate score was positively associated with work engagement [regression coefficient b = 0.58; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.18-0.98; p = 0.004] and job satisfaction (b = 0.80; 95% CI 0.48-1.13; p
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- 2019