Table 1.

Descriptive statistics factors of job satisfaction and of organizational attributes of practice assistants

	Mean (SD)	CI (95%)
Factors of job satisfaction1
Physical working condition	5.18 (1.32)	5.06 – 5.30
Freedom of working method	5.20 (1.35)	5.08 – 5.33
Colleagues and fellow workers	5.87 (1.28)	5.76 – 5.99
Recognition for work	5.07 (1.47)	4.94 – 5.21
Amount of responsibility	5.38 (1.33)	5.25 – 5.50
Income	3.89 (1.79)	3.73 – 4.06
Opportunity to use abilities	5.26 (1.26)	5.14 – 5.37
Hours of work	5.34 (1.49)	5.20 – 5.48
Amount of variety in job	5.49 (1.22)	5.38 – 5.60
Overall job satisfaction	5.74 (1.19)	5.63 – 5.85
Factors of organizational attributes2
Communication	3.92 (0.48)	3.86 – 3.98
Decision making	3.95 (0.64)	3.89 – 4.00
Stress	3.53 (0.73)	3.46 – 3.59
History of change	3.13 (0.79)	3.06 – 3.20
Overall score	3.70 (0.48)	3.66 – 3.75

SD Standard deviation, CI Confidence interval.

¹range from 1 “extreme dissatisfaction” to 7 “extreme satisfaction”.

²range from 1 “fully disagree” to 5 “fully agree”.