title: Development and validation of an instrument to assess job satisfaction in eye-care personnel.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim was to develop and validate an instrument to measure job satisfaction in eye-care personnel and assess the job satisfaction of one-year trained vision technicians in India.
  
  
  METHODS
  A pilot instrument for assessing job satisfaction was developed, based on a literature review and input from a public health expert panel. Rasch analysis was used to assess psychometric properties and to undertake an iterative item reduction. The instrument was then administered to vision technicians in vision centres of Andhra Pradesh in India. Associations between vision technicians' job satisfaction and factors such as age, gender and experience were analysed using t-test and one-way analysis of variance.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Rasch analysis confirmed that the 15-item job satisfaction in eye-care personnel (JSEP) was a unidimensional instrument with good fit statistics, measurement precisions and absence of differential item functioning. Overall, vision technicians reported high rates of job satisfaction (0.46 logits). Age, gender and experience were not associated with high job satisfaction score. Item score analysis showed non-financial incentives, salary and workload were the most important determinants of job satisfaction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The 15-item JSEP instrument is a valid instrument for assessing job satisfaction among eye-care personnel. Overall, vision technicians in India demonstrated high rates of job satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.|School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.|Vision Cooperative Research Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Prakash
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Paudel
authors.affiliation: Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.|School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.|Vision Cooperative Research Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cronjé
authors.affiliation: School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Patricia M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Optometry and Vision Science, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Jyoti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Khadka
authors.affiliation: Vision Cooperative Research Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.|LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: Gullapalli N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.affiliation: Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.|School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.|Vision Cooperative Research Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Brien A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Holden
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009881:Ophthalmic Assistants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Rasch analysis; job satisfaction; optometrists; vision technicians