Table 3.

Comparison of job satisfaction scores among frontline medical staff with various demographic and job characteristics (x̄ +s).

Item	Category	MSQ score	t/F	P
Gender	Male	81.69 ± 11.40	−1.105	0.27
	Female	82.96 ± 10.98
Age (years)	<30	82.08 ± 11.04	0.252	0.777
	30–40	82.87 ± 11.68
	>40	82.70 ± 7.87
Education	≤ College	84.48 ± 9.83	3.329	0.037
	Undergraduate	83.23 ± 11.04
	≥Postgraduate	80.40 ± 11.39
Marital status	Single	81.05 ± 10.78	2.317	0.1
	Married	83.35 ± 11.18
	Others	79.50 ± 11.11
Occupation	Physician	81.25 ± 10.94	1.384	0.252
	Nurse	83.15 ± 11.27
	Screening technician	81.25 ± 8.97
Work experience	≤ 6 years	80.91 ± 11.96	3.182	0.042
	6–12 years	82.70 ± 11.48
	>12 years	84.09 ± 9.64
Technical title	Junior	82.65 ± 11.66	0.014	0.986
	Intermediate	82.59 ± 11.31
	Senior	82.38 ± 8.55
Working unit	Screening ward	79.68 ± 8.17	2.173	0.115
	General ward	83.95 ± 8.84
	Intensive care unit	82.09 ± 12.26
Form of participation	Self-participation	83.04 ± 10.15	5.695	<0.001
	Hospital arrangements	64.36 ± 25.80
Working duration	<2 weeks	81.60 ± 7.02	3.887	0.021
	2 weeks to 1 month	84.54 ± 9.63
	>1 month	81.52 ± 11.78
Daily sleep duration	≤ 6 h	80.12 ± 13.11	−4.034	<0.001
	≥ 7 h	84.32 ± 9.08
Location	Hubei province	82.93 ± 10.18	0.549	0.583
	Outside Hubei province	82.34 ± 11.73