Physician, Practice, and Patient Characteristics Related to Primary Care Physician Physical and Mental Health: Results from the Physician Worklife Study.

This study was sponsored by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Research Initiative and by the National Research Service Award Training Program of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (5-T32-PE141001 and 5-T332-HS000032-07). Other members of the Career Satisfaction Study Group include John Frey, M.D., Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI; Judy Ann Bigby, M.D., Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Kathleen Nelson, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Birmingham, AL; William Scheckler, M.D., Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI; Mary Ramsbottom-Lucier, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; Richard Shugerman, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Roberta Williams, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. A previous version of this article was presented at the 1st Annual Health Organization's Conference in June 1999 in Berkley, CA. The authors are grateful to Beth Stevens, Ph.D., for her support. We also appreciate the assistance of Deborah Ellington, Bill Brinkman, and Liz Simons in preparation of the manuscript, of Carol Porter and Bob Schwartz for data management, and of the Sheps Center staff who helped field the survey, and to the many physicians who generously participated in this study's focus groups, pilot, and national surveys. The authors accept sole responsibility for the contents of this study.