Quality of professional life and its association with emotional well-being among COVID-19 physicians and nurses

The present study was to compare the professional quality of life (ProQOL) and its association with the emotional well‑being among the physicians and nurses in contact with COVID‑19 patients in Iran and France.

The study was performed on 903 nurses and physicians in contact with COVID‑19 patients in Iran and France.he subjects completed their demographics online and then answered questions addressing their job stress and emotion associated with their contact with COVID‑19 patients and ProQOL. Finally, the collected data were analyzed using the SPSS software (ver. 25).

According to the results of the present study, the degree of contact with COVID‑19 patients had a significant role in compassion satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue, with the coefficient effects of 0.459, 0.688, and 0.433, respectively (P < 0.05). The emotional well‑being had a significant role in increasing compassion satisfaction (B = 0.505, P < 0.05).

According to the results of the present study, factors such as contact with a COVID‑19 patient, emotional well‑being, gender, and marital status had a significant effect on dimensions of ProQOL in both Iran and France. Considering that the entire focus of the physicians and nurses is on the health of COVID‑19 patients and they have no concentration on improving their emotional state, it seems that supporting them in terms of psychological self‑care and considering its indirect impact on the quality of professional performance are of particular significance.