Abstract

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the quality

of life of surgical nurses and effective factors.

Method: The study was realized with the nurses working in

a surgical clinic of a private university hospital. The population

of our study consisted of 263 nurses working in these

hospitals, and, and the sample of the investigat,on comprised

of 210 nurses that agreed to participate in our study.

The Personal Information Form and the Quality of Life

Instrument (Short Form-36) developed by the investigators

were used to gather data. Numerical values, percentage,

arithmetic mean, standard deviation, mean, minimum and

maximum values, Mann-Whitney-U test, Kruskal-Wallis H

test were used to evaluate the data. P values under 0.05

were regarded as significant.

Result: The nurses obtained the highest scores in the

“Physical Function” (85.91±15.11) sub-dimension of the

quality of life scale, and the lowest scores in the “Physical

Role” (46.90±39.46) sub-dimension. Mean scores of the

nurses obtained from scale subdimensions (85.91±15.11),

were higher than mean scores of physical role (46.90±39.46),

painı (62.66±24.24), general health (63.70±18.68)) psychological

health (energy (51.85±20.29), social function

(67.85±23.67), emotional role (54.28±37.25), mental health

(62.62±17.58) A significant correlation was identified between

the quality of life of the nurses and their ages, duration

of professional service, existing disease, smoking status

and physical exercise (p<0.05). No correlation was

identified between the quality of life and gender, marital

status, education level, monthly income, average sleep

duration, or average number of meals.

Conclusion: The findings obtained from research based on

the results of sub-dimensions of the scale revealed that the

average physical health scores of nurses are higher than

their psychological health scores.