The Phenomena of Naturopathic Practitioner: Predictors of a High Patient Throughput

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of job satisfaction and feeling for the job of naturopathic practitioners ( = 262).

	Mean (SD)	CI 95%
Aspects of job
Physical working condition	5.84 (1.29)	5.62–6.01
Freedom of working method	6.79 (0.73)	6.60–6.86
Colleagues and fellow workers	5.61 (1.31)	5.41–5.80
Recognition for work	5.86 (1.27)	5.63–6.03
Amount of responsibility	5.96 (1.21)	5.79–6.15
Income/professional fees	4.56 (1.61)	4.34–4.81
Opportunity to use abilities	6.23 (1.18)	6.04–6.38
Hours of work	5.48 (1.51)	5.21–5.66
Amount of variety in job	6.38 (0.95)	6.18–6.49
Overall job satisfaction	6.38 (0.97)	6.20–6.50
Feeling for the job
The job contributes to a meaningful life	4.75 (0.59)	4.67–4.82
I look forward to working when I wake up in the morning	4.49 (0.67)	4.41–4.57

from 1 “extreme dissatisfaction” to 7 “extreme satisfaction”; from 1 “fully disagree” to 5 “fully agree”; SD: standard deviation; CI: confidence interval.