Quality of work life and factors associated with it among nurses in public hospitals, Iran

Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association

Table 3 Multiple regression analysis of factors associated with quality of work life (n = 2391)

Factors	B	SE	95% CI	p value
Constant	2.19	0.11	[1.97 to 2.41]	< 0.001
Age	0.013	0.0029	[0.006 to 0.017]	0.038*
Clinical experience	− 0.005	0.0030	[− 0.011 to 0.001]	0.085
Work hours	− 0.001	0.0007	[− 0.002 to 0.001]	0.232
Gender (reference: female)
Male	− 0.045	0.0181	[− 0.080 to − 0.009]	0.014*
Marital status (reference: married)
Single	− 0.035	0.0185	[− 0.071 to 0.001]	0.008*
Educational status (reference: Master and PhD degree)
Associate degree/diploma	− 0.059	0.0446	[− 0.146 to 0.029]	0.189
Bachelor degree	− 0.054	0.0169	[− 0.087 to − 0.021]	0.001*
Employment status (reference: bonded)
Permanent	− 0.022	0.0268	[− 0.075 to 0.031]	0.411
Contract	− 0.034	0.0240	[− 0.081 to 0.014]	0.162
Income (reference: > 30,000,000)
< 15,000,000	− 0.051	0.0335	[− 0.117 to 0.015]	0.129
15,000,000–30,000,000	− 0.017	0.0200	[− 0.056 to 0.022]	0.401
Ward (reference: other wards)
Critical care units	− 0.025	0.0264	[− 0.077 to 0.027]	0.345
Emergency wards	− 0.045	0.0273	[− 0.098 to 0.009]	0.101
General wards	− 0.051	0.0245	[− 0.107 to − 0.014]	0.090
Teaching status (reference: non-teaching)
Teaching	− 0.085	0.0203	[−0.125 to − 0.045]	< 0.001*
R = 0.153, R² = 0.023, adjusted R² = 0.019, F = 5.72