Survey of the Relationship between Quality of Work Life and Depression, Anxiety and Stress in Employees of Healthcare System

Human resource is an important assets for any organization and it is necessary to preserve their health for achieving the organizational goals. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the quality of work life with depression, anxiety and stress on employees in healthcare system of Islam Abad e Gharb Healthcare Network. This is a descriptive-analytic study in which 158 employees of Health Network were studied by cross-sectional and census method. Data were collected by questionnaires of Walton’s quality of work life and DASS. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman correlation coefficient, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Mean and median (Standard deviation) was 80.45 (17.70) for quality of work life, 4.9 (4.1) for depression, 6.34 (4.2) for stress and 3.7 (3) for anxiety. There was a negative and significant relationship between quality of work life and depression(r=-0.255, p=0.001), anxiety (r= -0.260, p= 0.001) and stress (r= -0.242, p= 0.002). Regarding the results, it can be concluded that improving the quality of work life is essential to mitigate the rate of depression, anxiety and stress.