Quality of Life among Nurses working in medical affiliated Zahedan hospitals

Quality of Life among Nurses working in medical affiliated Zahedan hospitals Introduction There is close relationship between the quality of life and the human health. Nurses as the most important of health Provider should have a good quality of life. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of life and related variables among nurses working in Zahedan medical affiliated hospitals. In this descriptive analytic study the Iranian version of SF-36 was used to assess the quality of life. The logistic regression was used to determine quality of life Predictors. Data analyses were conducted in Stata (ver.,12). 300 women (77.9%) with a mean age of 31.6 ± 6/6 years were studied. The mean of work experience was 7.55± 6.8 years. The most quality of life score was related to Physical domain (39.6 ± 11.8) and social function had the least score(8.2±6.7). The marital status, overtime work, working shift Pattern and work experience(yrs.) were the Predictors of quality of life. This study showed that quality of life is not good among nurses. The low quality of life, can affect the quality of nursing services. Nursing administrators can help to improve quality of life with setting up overtime shift and adjusting overtime with work experience.