A Comparative Study on Work-Life Quality among Nurses at Public and Private Sector Tertiary Care Hospitals of Peshawar
Keywords:
Quality of Work-Life, Nurses, HospitalAbstract
OBJECTIVES
The objective of this study was to assess the quality of nurses' work-life in public and private sector hospitals and to compare the quality of nurses' work-life in public and private hospitals.
METHODOLOGY
The research was done at KTH and RMI Peshawar with a cross-sectional study design. From 218 participants pretested and structured Brooks nurse's quality of work-life questionnaire was filled. Data entered in SPSS for categorical variables' frequency and percentages were done while for continuous variables mean and standard deviation were done.
RESULTS
A total of 218 nurses from RMI and KTH Peshawar participated in the research with a mean age of 28.47 and a standard deviation of 6.41. A major portion of the sample i.e. 80.3% have moderate QNWL, 18.8% have high QNWL, while less than 1% of the sample has low QNWL. The mean QNWL score for government hospitals was 160±15.15 while for the private hospital, the mean QNWL score was 172.07±20.57 which shows that private hospital nurses had a high QNWL score than government hospital nurses. The overall mean QNWL score both for public and private hospital nurses was 165.23±18.37 with a minimum score of 67 and a maximum score of 217.
CONCLUSION
The research concluded moderate QNWL among private-sector and public-sector nurses. Furthermore, private-sector nurses were shown to have a higher QNWL than public-sector nurses. Private sector hospitals reported inadequate salaries and poor job security as compared to government sector hospitals.
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