A survey on Quality of Life in Women Referred to Health Centers of Neyshabur-2012

Backgrounds and Women make up half of the population of every society and their health builds up familie's and societie's health. Therefore the higher quality of life of them in families can put a great positive effect on the quality of life of other family members. The objective of this study was to assess the quality of life in women referred to health centers of Neyshabur. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 387 women referring to health centers of Neyshabur who were chosen randomly in 2012. The data required in this study was gathered through World Health Organization Brief Quality Of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF). Data analysis was performed by descriptive statistics and analytic statistics by means of SPSS software, version 16. The mean age of studied women was 28.72±7.56. According to the result, the mean score of quality of life among women was 13.87±1.69. The lowest and the highest mean scores were observed in physical health dimension (12.8±1.87) and social relationship dimension (14.65±2.82), respectively. According to multivariate linear regression model there was a meaningful relation between overall quality of life with age, family income, spouse education levels, history of chronic disease in family (P< 0.05). According to the results, quality of life of studied women are in moderate level and variables such as family income and history of chronic disease in family are the most effective factors on their quality of life. So according to the vital role of women in families, it seems appropriate interventions should be carried out by concerning authorities to improve QoL of them.