"Qualidade de vida e satisfação profissional de enfermeiras de Unidades de Terapia Intensiva" / Quality of life and job satisfaction of intensive care nurses

AUTOR(ES)

Margarete Marques Lino

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

This study aimed to investigate quality of life and job satisfaction among intensive care nurses and to examine its relationships. The sample consisted of 190 intensive care nurses, representing 19 Intensive Care Units (ICUs). A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic, occupational, health data, perceptions and states of life and work. The generic version of Quality of Life Index (QLI) was used to measure both satisfaction and importance of four domains of life: health and functioning, psychological and spiritual, social and economic, and family. The overall quality of life was also measured. The level of job satisfaction towards six job components (autonomy, professional status, pay, interaction, task requirements and organizational policies) was measured using the Index of Work Satisfaction (IWS). Data were analyzed using content analysis, Pearson product-moment correlation, Chi-Square, Fisher’s Test, analysis of variance, cluster analysis and principal component analysis. Results showed that nurses had higher scores in family, psychological and spiritual, social and economic, health and functioning domains, respectively. They valued the job components of autonomy, interaction and pay more than professional status, task requirements and organizational policies, and were more satisfied with professional status, interaction, autonomy, pay, task requirements and organizational policies. Additionally, significant correlations were found among quality of life domains and job satisfaction components. Regarding the analysis of perceptions and states of life and work the results suggest that they were found to be significant potential indicators of quality of life and job satisfaction. These findings support the relationships between the work and nonwork domains of nurses’ lives and demonstrated the significance of ICU’ work characteristics in discussing the quality of life of nurses.

ASSUNTO(S)

enfermeiras satisfação no trabalho intensive care units job satisfaction nurses unidades de terapia intensiva quality of life qualidade de vida

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