Surveing the Quality of life in Employees health centers of Yazd Province in 2011

Quality of life is a subjective and multidimensional concept that in recent years has been noticeable by researcher due to multilateral widespread of technology and industrialization process. Quality of life, was  is individuals understanding of their status in the context of physical, mental and social impacts and to indicate the status of a resident in a country or region. The purpose of this study was determination the quality of life in employees health centers of Yazd province about healthy life styles in 2011.

This research was a cross - sectional study in which 501 staff employed  in 12 central areas of health centers of Yazd  as census method were enrolled . Data collection tool was WHO Quality of Life-BREF questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) including 26 questions,). After  data collection , it was analyzed  by using SPSS software as well as statistical t-test and ANOVA.

The results shown that the employees health centers of Yazd province were acquired 67.9% of the quality of life score. The way in which the dimensions of physical, psychological, social relationships and environment were obtained 72.9, 65.5, 70.2 and 63.15 ​​percent from the maximum score; Respectively. The quality of life score based on age, gender, type of employment, work experience and climate conditions were significant (p≤ 0.05).

Therefore it was suggested to improve the quality of life of employees health centers, officials with proper planning includes considering educational , cultural, recreational and sport programs ,, providing healthy nutrition, installing motivation and responsibility in them as well as paying  proper salary and benefits, take effective steps in this way.