Rosa Bogerd's research while affiliated with Nivel – Research for better care and other places

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Background: Professional fulfillment is crucial for physicians' well-being and optimal patient care. Highly demanding work environments, perfectionism and self-critical attitudes jeopardize physicians' professional fulfillment. Objective: To explore to what extent a kinder attitude towards the self, i.e. self-kindness, was associated with physic...
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Aims This is the first study to provide a holistic examination of cardiologists’ well-being, investigating positive and negative dimensions, and its determinants. Methods We conducted a national, multicenter, self-administered web-based questionnaire. We used frequencies to depict scores on three well-being indicators (professional fulfillment, wo...

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... The average professional fulfillment score of Dutch cardiologists (M = 3.85) is relatively high, compared to those of physicians in general which (converted to our measurement scale) have been reported between 3.25 and 3.50 [24,53]. One explanation for this finding may lie in the highly rewarding and meaningful nature of the specialty-cardiologists are frequently present at important moments in patients' lives which may be a stimulator for their feelings of intrinsic rewards and motivation [1,39,54]. Factors that have been found to positively affect the professional fulfillment of Dutch cardiologists are indeed satisfying physician-patient interactions, but also autonomy, personal resilience, satisfaction with compensation levels and the degree to which the job matches an individual's energy resources [54]. This study adds to that by showing how self-kindness indirectly affects cardiologists' professional fulfillment. ...