Background:

The satisfaction of professionals is important to evaluate the quality of dental care.

Objective:

To evaluate the stomatologists´ general work satisfaction from Sancti Spíritus with the Comprehensive General Stomatology service according to the technical-human dimensions, physical environment and treatment results.

Methodology:

A study about health system and services from 2014 to 2019 was made. The 21 units from the Sancti Spíritus province were divided into some stratus: clinical centers and polyclinics. It was aleatory selected the clinical centers and 4 polyclinics. The sample consisted of 179 general comprehensive stomatologists (98 from clinical centers and 81 from the polyclinics). Valued variables: satisfaction of technical-human dimension, physical environment and treatment results. Theoretical and empirical levels, also from statistical description were used.

Results:

40.2 % and 49.2 % of the specialists were moderately satisfied with the technical-human dimensions and treatment results, respectively, and 41.3 % were dissatisfied with the physical environment dimension.

Conclusions:

The stomatologists´ general work satisfaction was rated as moderately satisfied.

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