title: Lifestyle satisfaction of rural, South Dakota, family practice physicians.
abstract: South Dakota (SD) rural, family practice physicians were surveyed relative to their lifestyle satisfaction. Sixty-eight of 192 surveys were returned (45%), with 75% men and 22% women responding (3% no response). Forty-nine percent of respondents had attended the University of South Dakota School of medicine. Besides overall satisfaction, factor analysis grouped survey questions into four clusters: a) activities; b) community; c) income; and, d) time. As compared to other physicians, those physicians who were born in SD or had graduated from a SD high school, or had received their undergraduate education in either SD or a bordering state, reported significantly greater overall satisfaction as well as significantly greater satisfaction with both the community and availability of leisure activities. Interestingly, there was no significant difference in lifestyle satisfaction among physicians who attended medical school in either SD or a bordering state, as compared to physicians who attended medical school elsewhere. It does appear that the degree of "connectedness" to SD positively impacts the lifestyle satisfaction of SD, rural, family practice physicians.
authors.affiliation: University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Vermillion, USA.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Boles
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Yutrzenka
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kilawee
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003625:Data Collection; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010820:Physicians; D012424:Rural Population; D013023:South Dakota