Sociological examination of threats and opportunities related to shift work of medical married personnel of Tehran hospitals

Shift work is a multi-dimensional phenomenon which, in addition to, improving economic status of job shift person is regarded as an effective challenge on the life quality of medical personnel through creating family and personal disorders. Medical personnel are of practitioner groups that because of shift work are exposed to the above mentioned disorders more than other people. The purpose of the present research was to sociologically examining threats and opportunities related to shift work of medical married personnel of Tehran hospitals based on structural equations. The present research is analytical, correlational which was done among statistical population of medical married personnel of Tehran hospitals in 2017 of which 593 were chosen and studied as the sample through the use of simple random sampling. Using other researches the researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data and its reliability was formally confirmed by the experts and its validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis (Amos) with factor loading of (0.3) and more. Statistical analyses were done based on structural equations using Spss and Amos. The regression amount of the structural model represents that shift work has the most (-0.56) and the least (-0.22) effect on hope to the future and social adaptability, respectively. The results showed that the meaningful effect of shift work on alienation, social health, intra family relationships, intra family supervision, social adaptability, social asset, life satisfaction, tendency to divorce and hope to the future was at 99% level (P˂0.001).