Abstract
BackgroundNurses are at the forefront of providing health care services and their performance is largely determinant of the quality of health care. This study aims to investigate associations between professional self-concept (PSC) and WRQoL among nurses from selected hospitals in Bushehr and Shiraz cities (south of Iran), during the period of COVD-19 pandemic.MethodThis study is designed as a cross-sectional study. Available sampling was performed among active nurses in the care wards of patients with Covid-19 in public hospitals in Bushehr and Shiraz. Data were collected using demographic information form, along with the work-related quality of life and professional self-concept questionnaires. SPSS software and univariate and multivariate linear regression statistical methods with a significance level of 0.05 were used to analyze the data.ResultsThe mean scores of the PSC and the WRQoL Scale in nurses were respectively 202.32 ± 38.19 and 68.81 ± 19.12. There was also a significant direct relationship between PSC and WRQoL. PSC together with work location and working experience could thus explain 34.6% of the variance in WRQoL, which was 26.5% for PSC.ConclusionConsidering the confirmation of the predictive role of nurses’ PSC in their WRQoL in terms of planning and designing interventions to boost their WRQoL, attention to internal factors such as PSC is of utmost importance.
Highlights
As integral parts of health systems, nurses are the largest community of professionals at the frontline of service delivery [1]
This study aimed to examine the relationship between professional selfconcept (PSC) and Work-related quality of life (WRQoL) among nurses working in hospital wards for patients with COVID-19 in selected hospitals located in the cities of Shiraz and Bushehr, in the south of Iran
Other studies among Iranian nurses working in tertiary hospitals in Tehran [5], those involved in the city of Kashan [9], and the ones operating in intensive care units (ICUs) in Tehran [4], had further revealed that more than half of the nurses had reported their WRQoL at moderate-to-low levels
Summary
As integral parts of health systems, nurses are the largest community of professionals at the frontline of service delivery [1]. The capabilities of nurses in other roles related to health care services such as counseling, management, education, research, Work-related quality of life (WRQoL) is a complex and broad concept that has not been precisely defined so far [6]. It can be a new form of job satisfaction to the extent that the members of an organization can meet their personal needs through their own experiences within an organization. This study aims to investigate associations between professional selfconcept (PSC) and WRQoL among nurses from selected hospitals in Bushehr and Shiraz cities (south of Iran), during the period of COVD-19 pandemic
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