background and objectives: military hospitals play a crucial role in delivery of healthcare services to patients during emergencies. despite that, limited studies have attempted to characterize factors affecting quality of work life in employees of military health settings. to contribute in filling this gap, this study explored employee occupational stress in a military hospital, situated in th...

background the main purpose of this study was to explore the status of occupational stress among hospital nurses in isfahan, iran. it also aimed to examine the relationship between nurses’ occupational stress and their intention to leave the hospital.   methods the study employed a cross-sectional research design. a validated questionnaire was used to collect data from 296 nurses. respondents w...

nurses have long been relied as the major labor force in hospitals. featured with complicated and highly labor-intensive job requirement, multiple pressures from different sources was inevitable. success in identifying stresses and accordingly coping with such stresses is important for job performance of nurses, and service quality of a hospital. purpose of this research is to identify the dete...

background and objectives: studies of the relationship between personal qualities and job consequences usually find poor and inconsistent correlations. it is suggested that the reason may lie in ignorance of some modifying factors mediating such relationship. the perceived control has attracted much attention as a candidate factor. this study aimed to examine the mediating role of the perceived...

Background: Although all jobs can be stressful, occupational stress is an important issue in jobs that deal with human health. Evidence indicates that nursing is a stressful occupation. Objective: This research evaluated factors affecting occupational stress and strategies for coping with it. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptiv...

BACKGROUND The main purpose of this study was to explore the status of occupational stress among hospital nurses in Isfahan, Iran. It also aimed to examine the relationship between nurses' occupational stress and their intention to leave the hospital. METHODS The study employed a cross-sectional research design. A validated questionnaire was used to collect data from 296 nurses. Respondents w...

Background The main purpose of this study was to explore the status of occupational stress among hospital nurses in Isfahan, Iran. It also aimed to examine the relationship between nurses’ occupational stress and their intention to leave the hospital.   Methods The study employed a cross-sectional research design. A validated questionnaire was used to collect data from 296 nurses. Respondents w...

the aims of the present study were to assess the level of stress in hospital managers, to determine the sources of stress among hospital managers, and to evaluate the impact of stress on their job performance and, also to identify the relationship between some of the mamagers' personal characterisitcs and their level of stress. to achieve the above objectieves, it was decided to include al...

background routine screening for distress is internationally recommended as a necessary standard for good cancer care given its high prevalence and negative consequences on quality of life. this study attempts to support validation of distress thermometer (dt) in shiraz, iran and in the second step to investigate privilege/priority of dt over other referent criterion measures. material and meth...