Mindful medicine: Exploring the benefits of mindfulness-based stress reduction for doctors using statistical techniques

Abstract

Stress is a societal feature that can impact doctors' ability to help patients manage their own stress. The present study compares the stress levels among doctors from private and government sector. This study employs the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software to investigate the relationship between occupational stress and employee performance among government and private doctors. The study also examines the sources of occupational stress faced by doctors and how to address them. To ensure the research instrument's reliability and validity, factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha were computed. The resulting data was reduced from 80 to 42 statements. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett's test of Sphericity were used to determine the instrument's consistency, and the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test showed no significant variation in the factors based on different age groups. This indicates that respondents' responses did not conflict, and there were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of the six variables examined. The significant value of the study ranged from 0.087 to 0.898.

Keywords

Doctors / Statistical techniques / Occupational stress / Performance of doctors / ANOVA

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