How using mobile connectivity to work during non-work hours impacts clinical physicians' work-life balance.

摘要

The advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed the workplace around the world. The use of ICT technologies has changed how individuals live, work, and play. In the healthcare industry, clinical physicians utilize mobile connectivity devices such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets in every aspect of medical patient care. The integration of mobile connectivity in clinical physicians' workplaces has been instrumental in the daily efficacy and efficiency of medical decision-making, patient diagnosis and treatment, prevention, and research. Although mobile connectivity is critical to clinical physicians' work life, the researcher explored how usage can blur the boundaries into personal life. Multiple linear regression was used to assess the relationship between clinical physicians' work-life balance and mobile connectivity use. This study explored relationships between clinical physicians' work-life balance and type of mobile connectivity, duration of mobile connectivity and frequency of mobile connectivity use, age, family size, gender, and marital status in the United States. Results indicated a significantly predictive regression model found where age and frequency of mobile connectivity use to be significant predictors of clinical physicians' work-life balance. Furthermore, frequency of mobile connectivity use accounted for 14.1% more of the variation in clinical physicians' work-life balance than the demographic variables alone.