Research Article
Gender Differences and Work-Family Conflicts among Emergency Physicians with Intention to Leave
Table 1
The characteristics of the study population.
| Descriptive statistics | Number of respondents | % | N = 222 |
| Age group | ≤30 | 16 | 7.20% | 31–35 | 70 | 31.50% | 36–40 | 61 | 27.50% | 41–45 | 37 | 16.70% | 46–50 | 18 | 8.10% | >50 | 20 | 9.00% | Mean ± SD | 39.0 ± 7.6 years | Gender | Male | 194 | 87.40% | Female | 28 | 12.60% | ED practice hospital level | Medical center | 108 | 48.65% | Local hospital | 114 | 51.35% | Shift length | 8 h | 31 | 14% | 12 h | 110 | 49.50% | Mixed shifts | 76 | 34.20% | Others | 5 | 2.30% | Clinical work time per month (hours) | ≤120 | 19 | 8.60% | 121–140 | 21 | 9.50% | 141–160 | 49 | 22.10% | 161–180 | 67 | 30.20% | 181–200 | 50 | 22.50% | >200 | 16 | 7.20% | Night/day shift ratio | Day shift only | 16 | 7.20% | <20% | 29 | 13.10% | 21–40% | 68 | 30.60% | 41–60% | 75 | 33.80% | 61–70% | 15 | 6.80% | >70% | 19 | 8.60% | Weekend shifts per month | 1–3 | 33 | 14.90% | 4–6 | 178 | 80.20% | >6 | 11 | 5.00% | Financial compensation per month (10,000 NTD) | <30 | 100 | 45.00% | 30–40 | 115 | 51.80% | >40 | 7 | 3.20% | Marital status | Married | 178 | 80.18% | Others | 44 | 19.82% | Children | | | Yes | 150 | 67.60% | No | 72 | 32.40% | Intention to leave within one year | Yes | 34 | 15.30% | No | 188 | 84.70% | Retirement age preference (years old) | <45 | 30 | 13.50% | 46–50 | 46 | 20.70% | 51–55 | 63 | 28.40% | >55 | 83 | 37.40% |
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SD: standard deviation; ED: emergency department; NTD: New Taiwan dollars.
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