Assessment of Work Family Conflict and Role of Supervisory Support among Health Care Workers of Public Hospitals in Rawalpindi City.

Abstract

Introduction: This study examines the relationships of work family conflict with Supervisory support. Past studies related work family conflict to demographics, little work is done on finding relationship of supervisory support to work family conflict. Based on both quantitative and qualitative literature reviews, mediation hypotheses were developed to test this relationship and finding associations between demographics, work family conflict and supervisory support Objectives: 1. To determine work family conflict among healthcare workers of public hospitals in Rawalpindi 2. To determine Supervisory support among healthcare workers of public hospitals in Rawalpindi 3. To find out association between demographics, work family conflict, and supervisory support among healthcare workers of public hospitals in Rawalpindi Methodology: A Quantitative Cross-sectional study design, using Non probability Consecutive Sampling technique was used. A validated semi-structured questionnaire was administered to participating doctors. The questionnaire contained 3 sections with questions on the socio demographic factors, work family conflict, and supervisory support scales. Data were collected from 250 health care workers all doctors on different designations working in government hospitals. The data collected was analyzed with the help Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 20. Results: Among total of 250 participants, 95(38%) are male and 155(62%) are females. Among respondents majority are post graduate residents 173 (69.2%), 32 (12.8 %) are senior registrar and 29 (11.6 %) are medical officers. Majority 163 (65.2 %) worked more than 48 hours/week. 208 (83.2 %) of the respondents are satisfied with their job. Association of work family conflict with supervisory support is found to be negative in our study (r = -.782, p < .01). v Conclusion: Supervisory support has no effect on work family conflict. Though marital status, number of children, husband/wife occupation, independent living, and designation and duty hours has positive association with work family conflict and living with in-laws, income status and work experience has negative association. This shows that work family conflict does not only depend on one factor but it’s a cumulative effect of multiple factors and even if provided great supervisory support that will not reduce the conflicts between work and family. Keywords: Work Family Conflict, Supervisory Support, and Health Care Workers.