Protective factors and sources of support in the workplace as experienced by UK foundation and junior doctors: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This paper reports findings identifying foundation and junior doctors' experiences of occupational and psychological protective factors in the workplace and sources of effective support.

Design

Interpretative, inductive, qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with 21 junior doctor participants. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, anonymised and imported into NVivo V.11 to facilitate data management. Data were analysed using a thematic analysis employing the constant comparative method.

Setting

National Health Service in the UK.

Participants

Participants were recruited from junior doctors through social media (eg, the British Medical Association (BMA) junior doctors' Facebook group, Twitter and the mental health research charity

SUBMITTER: Riley R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8231035 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature