Table 4.

Comparison among demographic variables on overall job satisfaction by Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney U tests (n=164)

Variables	Number	Job satisfaction score	P-valuea
		Median (IQRd)
Province
Vientiane Capital	95	86 (80–90)	0.839b
Bolikhamsai	69	87 (71–90)
Gender
Male	56	87 (82–90)	0.192b
Female	108	85 (74–90)
Marital status
Single	31	86 (79–89)	0.640c
Married	126	86 (79–90)
Divorced/Widow	7	84 (83–85)
Age (Years)
≤ 30	53	82 (70–88)	0.009c
31–40	38	87 (80–92)
≥ 41	73	86 (82–90)
Professional level
High diploma health profession/ Diploma health profession	6	78 (68–93)	0.880b
Certificated health profession	158	86 (80–90)
Profession
Medical doctor	6	78 (68–93)	0.638c
Medical assistance/Nurse/Midwife	130	86 (80–90)
Pharmacist Assistant/Laboratory technician an Hygienist	28	85 (80–89)
Working experience (Years)
≤ 5	91	84 (72–89)	0.017b
> 5	73	87 (83–91)
Position
Chief/Vice chief	88	88 (84–92)	< 0.001b
Technical Staff	76	83 (71–88)

^aStatistical significance P < 0.05; ^b P-value from Mann-Whitney U test; ^c P-value from Kruskal-Wallis test; ^dIQR, Interquartile Range.