Quality of Life and Self-Efficacy in Health Care Providers of Rural Health Centers in Urmia

Considering the complex conditions of work in rural environment, it is important to evaluate the quality of life and its relation with self-efficacy in health care providers

This descriptive-analytical study was performed on 301 health care providers working in rural health centers. The short form of quality of life questionnaire (sf36) and Shererchr('39')s general self-efficacy scale was used to evaluate the study variables. Data were analyzed using ANOVA, independent t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and linear regression.

The average score of quality of life was 65.42 ± 19.1. Self-efficacy results showed that the mean self-efficacy score was 64.12 ± 10. According to multivariate linear regression method, there was significant inverse and independent relationship between quality of life with work duration (B = -0.45, P-value = 0.001) and income (B = -6.07, P-value = 0.001). There was no meaningful relationship between self-efficacy and quality of life in this study (B = -0.12, P-value = 0.33).

This study showed that work duration and income were important predictors of quality of life.