TY - JOUR ID - 16101 TI - Evaluation of the Relationship between the Dimensions of the Nurses’ Quality of Working Life and Social Desirability in Fars Province, Iran JO - Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences JA - JKMU LA - en SN - 1023-9510 AU - Roustaei, Narges AU - Jamali, Jamshid AU - Zare, Najaf AU - Ayatollahi, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi AU - Hosseini Teshnizi, Saeed AD - Ph.D. Candidate of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran AD - Ph.D. Candidate of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran AD - Ph.D. Candidate of Biostatistics, School of Nursing & Midwifery and Paramedicine, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 23 IS - 2 SP - 217 EP - 227 KW - Quality of working life KW - Social desirability KW - Nurses KW - Iran DO - N2 - Background & Aimes: The nurses’ quality of working life (QWL) influences the quality of health services provided by them and can be affected by several factors. In this study, we assessed the effect of social desirability on nurses’ QWL in Fars province, southern Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive and analytic study in 2014, 331 nurses were selected from 7 cities of Fars province using multistage cluster sampling method. Data collection was carried out using Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale and Work-Related Quality of Life Scale of University of Portsmouth. Multivariate regression model was applied to estimate the simultaneous effects of factors. Results: 22.1% of studied nurces were men and 63.9% were married. The nurses’ mean age and workexperience period were 31.26 ± 6.52 and 6.07 + 5.72 years, respectively. Variables such as age, marital status, working experience, employment type, administrative responsibilities and shift work had significant relationship with some of the dimensions , and the social desirability variable was effective on all the dimensions of the QWL (P < 0.05). 22.8% of nurses had low, 70.9% had moderate and 6.3% had high social desirability. Conclusion: Regarding the relationship between the social desirability and all dimensions the QWL, it is necessary for health system managers to provide appropriate strategies, such as in-service training, to increase the social desirability for nursing. Increasing social desirability, support of nurses in their workplace and creating a safe environment for them would improve nurses’ QWL. UR - https://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_16101.html L1 - https://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_16101_76a8bea709134dc07946fdb90a23c929.pdf ER -