Quality of work-life and associated factors among nurses working in Wollega zones public hospitals, West Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

Health care organizations should emphasize their professional quality of work-life to retain committed and qualified employees. Improvement of quality of work-life among health care providers, particularly nurses, positively affects patient outcomes. However, little information is known about the qu...

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Published in:International journal of Africa nursing sciences 2022, Vol.17, p.100466, Article 100466
Main Authors: Mosisa, Getu, Abadiga, Muktar, Oluma, Adugna, Wakuma, Bizuneh
Format: Article
Language:English
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Nurses
Quality of work-life
Wollega Zones
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Summary:Health care organizations should emphasize their professional quality of work-life to retain committed and qualified employees. Improvement of quality of work-life among health care providers, particularly nurses, positively affects patient outcomes. However, little information is known about the quality of work-life among nurses in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the quality of work-life and associated factors among nurses working in Wollega zones in public hospitals, West Ethiopia. An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 212 nurses from November to December 2018. The study participants were selected using a simple random sampling method. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire and were entered into Epi-data version 3.1 and exported into SPSS version 20.0 for analysis. The binary logistic regression model was conducted to assess the association between the quality of work-life and each independent variable. Multivariable logistic regressions were used to identify factors associated with the quality of work-life and the statistical significance was declared at a p-value of
ISSN:2214-1391
2214-1391
DOI:10.1016/j.ijans.2022.100466