Resilience among Employed Physicians and Mid-Level Practitioners in Upstate New York

Area of Science:

• Healthcare research
• Medical professional well-being
• Organizational psychology

Background:

• Medical professionals face unique stressors impacting resilience.
• Understanding factors influencing resilience is crucial for healthcare systems.
• Previous research has not fully elucidated these associations in a rural context.

Purpose of the Study:

• To identify key factors associated with resilience in medical professionals.
• To explore the relationship between job satisfaction, needs, and resilience.
• To examine the impact of workplace characteristics on practitioner resilience.

Main Methods:

• Cross-sectional survey utilizing validated measures of resilience, satisfaction, and uncertainty intolerance.
• Data triangulated from administrative records and self-report surveys of 308 practitioners.
• Multivariable mixed-effects models used to analyze associations.

Main Results:

• Resilience strongly correlated with relational needs, uncertainty tolerance, and job satisfaction.
• Higher practitioner numbers on a unit and lighter workloads were associated with greater resilience.
• Demographic factors showed limited association with resilience.

Conclusions:

• Frequent satisfaction, met relational needs, and uncertainty tolerance are key to medical professional resilience.
• Workplace interventions should focus on improving these mutable factors for enhanced well-being.
• Further research into evidence-based well-being strategies is recommended.