• Raziye Sule Gumustakım, Hilal Aksoy, Murat Cevık, Pınar Bılgılı, Duygu Ayhan Baser, Selda Handan Karahan Saper, Ulku Nur Sokmen, and Nebi Sokmen.
• Department of Family Medicine, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
• Int. J. Clin. Pract. 2021 Jul 1; 75 (7): e14255.

ObjectivesThe profession of medicine is very depressing both mentally and physically. There were studies conducted to investigate the reasons of depression and burnout. Hopelessness leads to depression and may be it is the first sign. The aim of our study is to determine the despair levels of primary care physicians.MethodsThis research is a descriptive study. The study conducted with family physicians and Beck Hopelessness Scale was applied. Statistical analysis of the data was performed using IBM SPSS 23.Results40.9% of those without children, 48.9% of those with chronic diseases, 47% of those who had been subjected to violence and 53.5% of those who are not satisfied with working in the primary care received severe hopelessness scores, and these score were significant (P < .05).ConclusionThe dissatisfied aspects of Family Medicine System should be examined in detail, and necessary measures should be taken against violence, which is a common problem in the whole healthcare sector. In this way, employee satisfaction and therefore patient satisfaction can be achieved.© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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