The relationship between work-life balance and quality of life among hospital employees

ABSTRACT

Introduction

Work-Life Balance (WLB) has got a significant attention among issues in a working environment. This study was conducted to investigate the current WLB status, and its’ association with quality of life (QoL) among hospital employees.

Method

A cross-sectional survey of 210 hospital employees was conducted in a period of 3 months (April to June 2016) in three training hospitals in Yazd, Iran. Two standard questionnaires including WLB and WHO Quality of Life were used to gather data. The differences in the WLB by demographic variables were examined using Independent t-test and one-way ANOVA statistics. Pearson correlation coefficient was also used to examine the association between WLB and QoL among hospital employees.

Results

Most of the study participants devoted more time on work other than personal life. Employees’ perception toward WLB was proved to be associated with QoL in all of the domains. However, there was no significant difference in terms of age, working shift, and work experience.

Conclusion

By increasing the WLB, QoL increases. Also, clinical staff and employed women were more likely to be the subject of poorer work-life balance which requires appropriate policy making in workplaces to effectively deal with the issue.

KEYWORDS:

• Work-life balance
• quality of life
• hospital
• employee
• relationship

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Roohollah Askari

Roohollah Askari and Milad Shafii were the main investigator and contributed to the development of research design, drafting and revising of the manuscript. Sima Rafiei revised the manuscript. Rahele Akbari and Elahe Haghir Ebrahimi contributed to implementation of the study and helped to revise the manuscript. Arefeh Dehghani contributed to data analysis, writing the methodology. All authors have read and approved of the final manuscript.

Sima Rafiei

Roohollah Askari and Milad Shafii were the main investigator and contributed to the development of research design, drafting and revising of the manuscript. Sima Rafiei revised the manuscript. Rahele Akbari and Elahe Haghir Ebrahimi contributed to implementation of the study and helped to revise the manuscript. Arefeh Dehghani contributed to data analysis, writing the methodology. All authors have read and approved of the final manuscript.

Rahele Akbari

Roohollah Askari and Milad Shafii were the main investigator and contributed to the development of research design, drafting and revising of the manuscript. Sima Rafiei revised the manuscript. Rahele Akbari and Elahe Haghir Ebrahimi contributed to implementation of the study and helped to revise the manuscript. Arefeh Dehghani contributed to data analysis, writing the methodology. All authors have read and approved of the final manuscript.

Elaheh Haghir Ebrahimi

Roohollah Askari and Milad Shafii were the main investigator and contributed to the development of research design, drafting and revising of the manuscript. Sima Rafiei revised the manuscript. Rahele Akbari and Elahe Haghir Ebrahimi contributed to implementation of the study and helped to revise the manuscript. Arefeh Dehghani contributed to data analysis, writing the methodology. All authors have read and approved of the final manuscript.

Arefeh Dehghani

Roohollah Askari and Milad Shafii were the main investigator and contributed to the development of research design, drafting and revising of the manuscript. Sima Rafiei revised the manuscript. Rahele Akbari and Elahe Haghir Ebrahimi contributed to implementation of the study and helped to revise the manuscript. Arefeh Dehghani contributed to data analysis, writing the methodology. All authors have read and approved of the final manuscript.

Milad Shafii

Roohollah Askari and Milad Shafii were the main investigator and contributed to the development of research design, drafting and revising of the manuscript. Sima Rafiei revised the manuscript. Rahele Akbari and Elahe Haghir Ebrahimi contributed to implementation of the study and helped to revise the manuscript. Arefeh Dehghani contributed to data analysis, writing the methodology. All authors have read and approved of the final manuscript.