Social Wellbeing Among Iranian Caregivers

Mahshid Taheri, Elham Ghasemi, Reza Negarandeh (), Leila Janani and Fatemeh Mirbazegh
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Mahshid Taheri: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Elham Ghasemi: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Reza Negarandeh: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Leila Janani: Iran University of Medical Sciences
Fatemeh Mirbazegh: Tehran University of Medical Science

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2019, vol. 141, issue 2, No 7, 657-667

Abstract: Abstract Social well-being of person who works in social services as well as hospital staff has a large effect on care quality and organizational efficiency. The aim of this study was to evaluate the social well-being of occupational sub-groups in Iran’s selected hospitals. A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among nurses, midwives, laboratory technicians, surgical and radiology technologists in Iran hospitals. 343 people were sampled using stratified random sampling with proportional allocation. The results demonstrated that the social well-being of employees was in moderate level (62.28 ± 11.22) and the highest score belonged to social partnership aspect which was 16.40 ± 3.21. Social well-being was significantly related to educational status (P = 0.01), participation in extra-curricular activities (P = 0.002) and income satisfaction (P = 0.01); it was weakly but positively correlated with age (r = 0.1, P = 0.02) and amount of leisure time (r = 0.1, P = 0.01). Work experience (P = 0.05), overtime hours (P = 0.34) and gender (P = 0.31) have no significant relationship with staffs’ social well-being. The current status of the social well-being is not satisfactory for care services providers. Poor well-being among care providers leads to poor clinical practice in university hospitals; therefore, mangers and society support is essential for promotion of care providers’ social well-being.

Keywords: Social well-being; Hospital staff; Caregiving; Nurse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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