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Structural Equation Modeling Analysis of Factors Influencing Family Doctor Contracted Services Based on Survey Data from Changning District, Shanghai.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Family doctors fulfill the role of gatekeepers in protecting residents' health with contracted services. Providing these valuable services involves multiple causes, relationships, and indirectly observable variables. This study used structural equation modeling to construct a dynamic model of the work of family doctors to provide a basis for incentives.

Methods

This study used 2-year follow-up data from a survey of 294 family doctors in Changning District, Shanghai. Data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The measurement model and structural model were defined, identified, verified, integrated, and revised to identify the factors motivating family doctors to provide contracted services. A dynamic path for the family doctor contracted services model was established and eventually modified with six endogenous latent variables: cognition, environmental satisfaction, income satisfaction, support satisfaction, stability, and contracting performance, underpinned by 27 measurement variables.

Result

The standardized regression coefficient of the effect of cognition on environmental satisfaction was 0.37 (P < 0.05) and the degree of variation interpretation was 0.14. The effect of cognition on income satisfaction was 0.54 (P < 0.05) and the degree of variation interpretation was 0.29. The effect of cognition on stability was 0.40 (P < 0.01), the effect of environmental satisfaction on stability was 0.12 (P < 0.05), and the effect of income satisfaction on stability was 0.22 (P < 0.05), all with a degree of variation interpretation of 0.369. Finally, the effect of stability on contracting performance was 0.51 (P < 0.05) with a degree of variation interpretation of 0.343.

Conclusions

The degree of family doctors' understanding (cognition) of their own work largely determines their behavioral orientation and service effectiveness. These results raise the possibility of enhancing family doctors' work stability and improving the performance of contracted services by increasing the income of family doctors.

SUBMITTER: Liu S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9246594 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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