Work-Related Satisfaction among Clinicians Working at Inpatient Treatment Facilities for Substance Use Disorder: The Role of Recovery Orientation

Dagny Adriaenssen Johannessen, Trond Nordfjærn and Amy Østertun Geirdal
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Dagny Adriaenssen Johannessen: Blue Cross East, 0182 Oslo, Norway
Trond Nordfjærn: Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Amy Østertun Geirdal: Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, OsloMet—Oslo Metropolitan University, 0130 Oslo, Norway

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 14, 1-14

Abstract: Several psychosocial factors have been suggested as facilitators of change among inpatients treated for substance use disorder (SUD). Research suggests that staff members are also influenced by the practice in which they are involved, and by contextual psychosocial factors at their treatment facilities. This cross-sectional questionnaire survey study was conducted to investigate the role of recovery-orientated interventions in describing work-related satisfaction among clinicians at inpatient SUD treatment facilities. The respondents ( n = 407) rated items indicating work-related satisfaction and the degree of recovery orientation at their treatment facilities. The main findings of two block regression analyses indicated that clinicians’ work-related satisfaction was positively influenced by inpatients’ opportunities to pursue their goals and choices, and negatively influenced by inpatient involvement. The change in clinicians’ work-related satisfaction could not be described by the degree of individually tailored and varied interventions at the treatment facility. Clinicians should be supported and involved in the process of implementing measures to increase inpatient involvement in the treatment programmes, and treatment measures that enable inpatients to pursue their goals and choices should be enhanced. The findings of this and previous studies indicate that a recovery-oriented framework promotes clinicians’ work-related satisfaction and has an enabling influence on both inpatients and clinicians.

Keywords: inpatient treatment; job satisfaction; psychosocial factors; Norwegian recovery self-assessment (RSA-N); regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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