Table 1.

Professional identity descriptions among physicians in hospital and primary health care settings. The proportions of physicians who answered “very well” or “quite well” to the question “How well do the following descriptions of the work of a physician match you as a physician?”, and the corresponding associations (odds ratios, primary health care as a reference group)

Description	Hospital	Health care centre	Odds Ratio (95% CI)*	p-value*
	(n = 2,148)	(n = 992)
	%	%
Member of a working group/team	90.0	84.2	1.85 (1.47–2.34)	< 0.001
Helper	80.0	87.8	0.61 (0.49–0.76)	< 0.001
Health expert	73.0	88.5	0.37 (0.30–0.46)	< 0.001
Listener	66.3	89.6	0.24 (0.19–0.30)	< 0.001
Teacher	60.0	54.1	1.20 (1.02–1.40)	0.025
Developer	54.6	44.8	1.36 (1.16–1.59)	< 0.001
Healer	49.6	50.9	0.87 (0.74–1.02)	0.079
Physician by calling	48.6	53.2	0.84 (0.72–0.99)	0.034
Prescriber of medication	46.3	72.6	0.36 (0.31–0.43)	< 0.001
Provider of comfort	46.0	70.5	0.39 (0.33–0.46)	< 0.001
Prioritiser	45.3	52.1	0.86 (0.74–1.01)	0.063
Pillar of support	40.3	54.4	0.56 (0.47–0.65)	< 0.001
Health educator	40.0	69.3	0.31 (0.27–0.37)	< 0.001
Civil servant	35.5	41.8	0.73 (0.63–0.86)	< 0.001
Coach	34.0	35.0	0.84 (0.71–0.99)	0.034
Researcher	33.3	12.4	3.41 (2.75–4.22)	< 0.001
Someone engaged in social work	32.0	57.0	0.40 (0.34–0.47)	< 0.001
Director	31.5	25.2	1.19 (1.00-1.42)	0.053
Innovator	29.9	22.6	1.28 (1.06–1.53)	0.009
Someone issuing certificates	27.3	64.2	0.23 (0.20–0.27)	< 0.001
Production line worker	26.3	29.5	0.91 (0.76–1.08)	0.273
Technician	25.7	11.3	2.70 (2.15–3.39)	< 0.001
Gatekeeper	24.5	45.3	0.43 (0.36–0.50)	< 0.001
Family physician	17.3	62.9	0.12 (0.10–0.15)	< 0.001
Provider of spiritual support	15.8	28.5	0.46 (0.38–0.56)	< 0.001
Entrepreneur	11.2	6.0	1.63 (1.20–2.20)	0.002
Shaman	3.5	4.5	0.74 (0.50–1.09)	0.132

*Binary logistic regression analysis (refence group health care centre) adjusted for gender and graduation year