Comparison of Burnout, Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction between Midwives Working in Hospitals and Health Centers

This study was aimed to compare burnout, occupational stress, and job satisfaction among midwives working in hospitals and health centers. This research is a descriptive and causal - comparative research study. The statistical population of the present study was all midwives working in hospitals and health centers in Dorud in 2018, and among the midwives working in hospitals and midwives working in health centers, 60 people were selected by convenience sampling method. The research tools were Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) (1985), Philip - Rice's Occupational Stress Questionnaire (1997), and Job Descriptive Index (JDI) for job satisfaction. Inferential statistics including multivariate analysis and one - way analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a significant difference in linear composition of job burnout scores, occupational stress and job satisfaction among midwives working in hospitals and midwives working in health centers (P = 0. 0001, F=22. 406, Wilks's lambda=0. 785). Also, the findings showed that 21% of the variance of dependent variables can be explained by the grouping a variable namely midwives working in hospitals and health centers.