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Vol.16 Issue.3 · July-September 2025
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The relationship between resident doctors’ attitudes towards brain drain and their life satisfaction and proactive personality traits

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Published Online: 29 September 2025 · Accepted: 8 May 2025 · Received: 30 January 2025
Doi: 10.15511/tjtfp.25.00351
Cite Code: The Journal of Turkish Family Physician 2025;16(3):151-167
Authors: Ayşe Nilüfer Özaydın 1 · Şerife Ceren Önder Kutlu 2 · Süleyman Demir 3 · Abdullah Berkay Demirel 4 · Muhammed Besim Taş 5 · Ayhan Hediye 6
1 Marmara University, School of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Prof. MD, Istanbul / {ORCID: 0000-0002-2616-0710}
2 Bartın Directorate of Health, Public Health Spec. Dr, Istanbul.{ORCID:0000-0003-4472-787X}
3 Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, MD, Istanbul.{ORCID:0000-0003-2207-8039}
4 Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, MD, Istanbul.{ORCID:0000-0002-0607-142X}
5 Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, MD, Istanbul.{ORCID:0000-0001-5818-7179}
6 Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, MD, Istanbul.{ORCID:0000-0001-9973-4618}

Cite Code: Özaydın AN., ve Ark. Asistan hekimlerin beyin göçüne yönelik tutumlarının yaşam doyumları ve proaktif kişilik özellikleri ile ilişkisi. Jour Turk Fam Phy 2025; 16 (3): 151-167. Doi: 10.15511/tjtfp.25.00351.

Permissions were obtained from the University Ethics Committee (07.01.2022/09.2022.141), the Dean’s Office of
the School of Medicine, and informed consent from the participants. No conflict of interest declared.

This article is published online with Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).


Keywords: brain drain · healthcare workers · human migration · International migration · violence in health
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Aim: Our objective was to investigate the magnitude of brain-drain trends and influencing factors in a group of resident medical doctors in Istanbul/Türkiye.

Materials and Methods: Data were collected in January-February/2022 through a questionnaire containing the Attitude Scale for Brain Drain (ASBD), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Abbreviated Proactive Personality Scale (APPS). The calculated sample size was 263 and was selected by stratified-sampling. Approvals were received from the Dean of Marmara University, local ethics committee (07.01.2022/09.2022.141), and also informed consent forms were collected from the participants for this cross-sectional study.

Results: The median-age was 28.0 years (28.4±2.5, 23-41). A high tendency toward brain-drain (62.8±9.4) and highly proactive personality traits (median: 51.0) were found, where as levels of satisfaction with life were low (17.1±6.2). The tendency towards brain-drain showed a positive correlation (r: 0.20, p=0.002) with the proactive personality traits and an inverse correlation with life satisfaction (r:-0.42, p=0.001), Only proactive personality traits (OR: 1.03, %95CI 1.00-1.06) and satisfaction with life (OR: 0.8, %95CI 0.82-0.93) measures seem to affect the brain-drain.

Conclusion: We found that the resident doctors have a low level of satisfaction with their lives, have high proactive personal traits and have a high tendency toward brain drain.

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