Table 4.

Comparison of job satisfaction of General Practitioners, Private and Public Psychiatrists.

	General Practitioners N = 180	Private psychiatrists N = 45	Public psychiatrists N = 63	Chi2 test
MHP practice satisfaction (%)
Having MHP patients that the practitioner would prefer not to cater for	64.2	55.6	64.4	ns
Having difficulties hospitalizing MHP patients (always/often)	46.9	40.0	41.0	ns
Unsatisfactory or very unsatisfactory relationships with
... GPs	19.0	33.3	29.7	0.05
... private psychiatrists	49.1	11.3	27.1	<0.0001
... public psychiatrists	29.9	29.7	18.8	<0.0001
... colleagues in general	16.2	23.5	10.5	ns
Relationships with mental health professionals are worse than with other health professionals	53.7	15.4	8.1	<0.0001
Having insufficient or very insufficient scope for taking on new patients (workload)	39.7	93.4	77.1	<0.0001
Scope for entrusting part of care to another professional insufficient or very insufficient	46.3	73.2	80.7	<0.0001
General practice satisfaction (%)
- clinical activities
Independence is essential or important	98.9	100.0	95.2	ns
Exchanges with colleagues are essential or important	99.4	88.8	98.5	ns
Possibility for being replaced insufficient or very insufficient	89.9	86.3	73.3	0.008
- other activities
Income is unsatisfactory or very unsatisfactory	44.8	56.8	57.7	ns
Administrative duties are demanding or very demanding	91.6	77.8	64.0	<0.0001
Time for further medical education is unsatisfactory or very unsatisfactory	65.7	57.8	77.4	ns
Time for reading medical journals is unsatisfactory or very unsatisfactory	64.4	66.7	78.1	ns
Opportunities for writing medical articles are unsatisfactory or very unsatisfactory	84.1	85.7	80.7	ns
Opportunities for being involved in research and evaluation studies are unsatisfactory or very unsatisfactory	98.3	87.1	68.4	ns