Relationship between psychological problems and quality of work life of Intensive Care Unit Nurses

Nurses as the major group of health service providers need to have the satisfactory quality of work life in order to give desirably care for the patients. The purpose of this research has been to study the “Relationship between psychological problems and quality of work life of intensive care unit nurses”. This cross-sectional study which is descriptive –correlation was accomplished on 143 nurses working in intensive care unit of Tehran hospitals in 2010. Data with using of three questionnaires including demographic characteristics, questionnaire of quality of work life based on Walton’s model and the standard questionnaire of DASS21 was gathered. The information was analyzed using SPSS16 software and Pearson correlation test and chi-square test. There has been no correlation between quality of work life and stress (p=0.07) and depression (p=0.05), but there has been a weak inverse correlation with anxiety (p=0.002, r=-0/27). It is essential to consider nurses’ anxiety especially by directors due to anxiety impact on reduction of nurses’ quality of work life.