Job satisfaction and job content in Dutch dental hygienists
Objectives: This study compares the scope of practice of Dutch dental hygienists (DHs) educated through a 2- or 3-year curriculum ('old-style DHs') with that of hygienists educated through a new extended 4-year curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree ('new-style DHs'), with the aim to investigate whether an extended scope of practice positively affects perceived skill variety, autonomy and job satisfaction. Methods: The questionnaires were obtained from old-and new-style DHs (n = 413, response 38%; n = 219, response 59%, respectively), in which respondents had recorded their dental tasks, pe... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Jerkovic , K , van Offenbeek , M A G & van der Schans , C P 2012 , ' Job satisfaction and job content in Dutch dental hygienists ' , International Journal of Dental Hygiene , vol. 10 , no. 3 , pp. 155-162 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-5037.2012.00567.x |
Schlagwörter: | autonomy / dental hygiene profession / job satisfaction / professional domain / scope of practice / skill variety / INTERNATIONAL PROFILES / EMPLOYMENT |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28619557 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
Powered By: | BASE |
Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/82fe0147-4d4f-4f91-bfd7-331c72b4ddc4 |
Objectives: This study compares the scope of practice of Dutch dental hygienists (DHs) educated through a 2- or 3-year curriculum ('old-style DHs') with that of hygienists educated through a new extended 4-year curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree ('new-style DHs'), with the aim to investigate whether an extended scope of practice positively affects perceived skill variety, autonomy and job satisfaction. Methods: The questionnaires were obtained from old-and new-style DHs (n = 413, response 38%; n = 219, response 59%, respectively), in which respondents had recorded their dental tasks, perceived skill variety, autonomy and job satisfaction. T-tests were used to analyse differences between old-and new-style DHs, and regression analyses were performed to assess the relation between scope of practice and skill variety, autonomy and job satisfaction. Results: New-style DHs have a more extended scope of practice compared with old-style DHs. Despite their more complex jobs, which are theoretically related to higher job satisfaction, new-style DHs perceive lower autonomy and job satisfaction (P <0.05). Skill variety is the strongest predictor for DHs' job satisfaction (beta = 0.462), followed by autonomy (beta = 0.202) and caries decisive tasks, the last affecting job satisfaction negatively (beta = -0.149). Self-employment is the strongest significant predictor for autonomy (beta = 0.272). Conclusions: The core business of DHs remains the prevention and periodontology services. New-style DHs combine these tasks with extended tasks in the caries field, which can lead to comparatively less job satisfaction, because of a lower experienced autonomy in performing these extended tasks.