Seyed Abolfazl Zakerian, Zohreh Anbari, Abdolrasoul Rahmani, Marzieh Abbasinia, Somayeh Farhang Dehghan, Iman Ahmadnezhad, Mehdi Asghari.
A survey of the relation between workload and quality of life among Hospital staff.
Pak J Public Health Jan ;4(1):1-8.

Background: The nurses and medical staff in hospitals experience high workload which can adversely effect on their quality of life. The present study aimed to measure the workload experienced by medical staff, and assess their quality of life and also survey of the relation between workload and quality of life among them. Methods: 200 participants of the nursing staff, laboratory staff, and operation room staff in two large hospitals of Tehran were selected through simple random method. Three types of questionnaires were used for data gathering including: demographical information, life quality information (SF-36), and workload information (NASA-TLX) questionnaires. The data were analyzed in SPSS Ver. 18 using descriptive statistics and deductive statistics such as Pierson and Spearman's correlation coefficients, T -test and variance analysis, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal Wallis tests. Results: Participants had an average of 7.6 years of experience in their profession and the average age of the participants was 31.9±7 years. Results obtaining from the life quality questionnaire (SF-36) revealed that average total score of quality of life was 50±18, physical Functioning 59.1±25.6, role physical 33±38, role emotional 33.38, vitality 50.8±17.97, mental health 56.7±17.6, social functioning 54±21, bodily pain 53.37±22.3, and general health 50.8±20.5. The measurement of workload among the subjects disclosed that total score of workload was 67.7±13.9, average mental demand 71.22±24.12, average physical demand 70.8±25.8, average temporal demand 73.55±23.33, performance score 60.9±28.6, and average frustration score was obtained 63.863/8±30.2 . Assessing the relationship between workload dimensions and quality of life dimensions showed that there was a significant and direct relation between number of overworked hours (p value=0.001, r = 0.250) and level of frustration (p=0.31, r = 0.153). Conclusions: The results confirmed a negative and significant relation between workload and quality of life, so that the higher the workload, the lower the quality of life. Therefore, hospital managers need to take into account the amount of workload and stop the over-pressured jobs if they want to improve performance and life quality of the employees

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