Consultant Physicians’ Work Performance and Bedtime Web Surfing

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Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine , Menoufia University (Shebin El-Kom) Egypt.

10.21608/ejom.2025.387401.1372

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Background: Bedtime web surfing is a prevalent problem nowadays and it may affect work performance. Objectives: Assess the effect of bedtime surfing on Consultant physicians’ work performance. Participants and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from the first of October 2024 to the end of April 2025 on 385 consultant physicians from Egypt to assess their Bedtime web surfing and its effect on job performance using the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ) (which is formed of three domains counterproductive work behavior, contextual performance and task performance). Other sociodemographic data, criteria related to surfing and others related to their job were collected.

Results: Mean (±SD) age of the participants was 46.04 (± 8.72) years, 59.2% were females, 55.6% had urban residence. More than 70% of the participants prefer daytime web surfing and more than 50% would spend their surfing time on different social media platforms. Bedtime web surfers were significantly older, mostly females, from urban areas and have mainly surgical subspecialty. Linear regression analysis showed that task and contextual performance were significantly associated but negatively correlated with bed time surfing (p

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Egyptian Journal of Occupational Medicine
Volume 49, Issue 3
September 2025
Pages 87-102

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