Investigating the relationship between work-family conflict and the desire to stay in the job from the perspective of employees of comprehensive health service centers in Gorgan

Work-family conflict leads to reduced productivity, increased employee tardiness, absenteeism, reduced work and organizational commitment. This study aimed to determine the relationship between work-family conflict and the desire to stay in the job from the perspective of employees of comprehensive health service centers in Gorgan.

This descriptive- analytic, cross-sectional study was conducted in 2021. 344 employees of Comprehensive Health Service Centers in Gorgan participated in the study. After sampling by stratified random method, Nete Meyer work-family conflict questionnaire and the tendency to stay in the job of Wiener & Vardi were collected and with the help of descriptive and inferential statistical methods in SPSS-23 software at a significance level of 0.05 Were analyzed.

The mean of work-family conflict was 32.77 ±10.32. The mean of work-family conflict (16.97 ±7.31) was higher than family-work conflict (15.80 ±6.55), (P = 0.014).  The mean desire to stay in the staff of comprehensive health service centers was strong (13.17 ± 3.51). 9.3 percent tended to stay in a weak job, 33.4% had a moderate tendency and 57.3 percent had a strong tendency. There was a significant weak and inverse correlation between the overall score of work-family conflict with the tendency to stay in the job (P <0.001).

The rate of work-family conflict in this study was moderate to low. The desire to stay on the staff of Gorgan Comprehensive Health Service Centers was evaluated as strong.