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Assessment of Family Function of Academic Physicians

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Background: A balance between Work and family is required to maintain a stable professional and personal life. It is necessary for well-being, job satisfaction, and productivity; Academic physicians' family function usually affected by multiple responsibilities at work. Aim: To assess the family function of the academic staff and to identify the risk factors of family dysfunction. Subjects and Methods: A Cross-sectional descriptive study on 277 academic physicians from different specialties working at the faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt, participated in an online anonymous questionnaire assessing sociodemographic characteristics, work duties, and family function using APGAR score. Results: Mean age of participants was 38.38 years; Females represented 60.6%. Seventy-two percent of the medical staff had severe family dysfunction, 21% had moderate family dysfunction and only 7% of them were highly functional. There was a statistically significant relation between family dysfunction and age, gender, marital status, having children, job title, and the number of working hours per week. Conclusion: This study showed that most of the academic physicians were suffering from severe family dysfunction. Further studies about work stress in faculties of medicine in Egypt and its impact on family function are needed for further assessment and improvement.
 

DOI

10.21608/scumj.2020.122837

Keywords

Apgar score, Doctors, Family dysfunction

Authors

First Name

Tayseer

Last Name

Metwally

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M

Affiliation

Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez University, Suez, Egypt

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tayseer.metwally@med.suezuni.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0002-1972-2981

First Name

Samy

Last Name

Abdelazim

MiddleName

A

Affiliation

Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt,

Email

samy.abdel-razek@med.suez.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0002-5111-3123

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdelrahman

MiddleName

G

Affiliation

Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt,

Email

ahmed.gharib@med.suez.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0001-6191-1551

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Hefny

MiddleName

A

Affiliation

Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt

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m.hefny@med.suez.edu.eg

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0000-0002-2459-0338

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23

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1

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17184

Issue Date

2020-03-01

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2020-11-12

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2020-03-01

Page Start

81

Page End

88

Print ISSN

1110-6999

Online ISSN

2090-2581

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SCUMJ_Volume 23_Issue 1_Pages 81-88.pdf

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Suez Canal University Medical Journal

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Assessment of Family Function of Academic Physicians

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22 Jan 2023