The Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Sleep Quality in Nurses Working in Critical Care Units

The study of sleep problems and work-family conflict among nurses is very important due to workload and work shift. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between work-family conflicts and sleep quality in nurses working in special wards of hospitals affiliated to Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd.

This is a descriptive correlational study conducted in 2019. This research done on 175 nurses working in hospitals affiliated to Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran, selected by stratified sampling. Data Collection tools were the questionnaire of demographic characteristics, sleep quality and work-family conflict. Collected data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS software.

The findings showed that the total score of the conflict (47.57 ± 11.11) was higher than the average and time-based work-family conflict had the highest average (9.24 ± 3.11). The results also showed that the majority of nurses (56.6%) had generally poor sleep quality and in the dimensions of sleep disorder (77.1%), delayed sleep (41.1%), and sleep mental quality (58.9%) had on average. Also, Pearson statistical test showed that there is a significant and inverse relationship between the mean of sleep quality score and work-family conflict score of nurses.
 (r=-0.02, P = 0.000).

The results of this study showed that work-family conflict leads to poor sleep quality in nurses. Hospital managers should be aware these stressors and with the proper planning in this regars, they will improve the health of nurses.