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<sec><h3>Objective</h3>
<p>The quality of professional life has attracted the attention of many managers owing to its importance, and organizational commitment differs according to work conditions in an organization. As the largest professional group in the healthcare system, nurses face many stressful factors that can endanger their quality of professional life and organizational commitment. Despite their huge importance, these 2 variables have rarely been addressed or evaluated in the nursing profession. The present study was conducted to determine the relationship between quality of professional life and organizational commitment in nurses working in the intensive care units (ICUs) and critical care units (CCUs).</p>
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<sec><h3>Methods</h3>
<p>The present descriptive–analytical study was conducted on 221 nurses working in the ICUs of hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and selected through proportional stratified sampling. The data collection tools comprised demographic questionnaires, the quality of work-life questionnaire by Walton with 8 dimensions, and the valid and reliable organizational commitment scale by Meyer and Allen. The data were analyzed in SPSS, version 23 (IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York, United States), using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques, including Spearman correlation, Pearson correlation, the Kruskal–Wallis test, the Mann–Whitney <italic>U</italic> test, the χ<sup>2</sup> test, and the independent <italic>t</italic> test. <italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.050 was set as the level of statistical significance.</p>
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<sec><h3>Results</h3>
<p>The mean scores of quality of professional life and organizational commitment were 58.996 ± 14.427 and 93.840 ± 13.900, respectively, in the ICU nurses. The Pearson test showed positive and significant relationships between quality of professional life and organizational commitment (<italic>r</italic> = 0.392, <italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.001).</p>
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<sec><h3>Conclusions</h3>
<p>Given the positive relationship found in the present study between organizational commitment and quality of professional life, it is recommended that organizational commitment be modified to improve the quality of professional life in nurses.</p>
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Objective
The quality of professional life has attracted the attention of many managers owing to its importance, and organizational commitment differs according to work conditions in an organization. As the largest professional group in the healthcare system, nurses face many stressful factors that can endanger their quality of professional life and organizational commitment. Despite their huge importance, these 2 variables have rarely been addressed or evaluated in the nursing profession. The present study was conducted to determine the relationship between quality of professional life and organizational commitment in nurses working in the intensive care units (ICUs) and critical care units (CCUs).

Methods
The present descriptive–analytical study was conducted on 221 nurses working in the ICUs of hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and selected through proportional stratified sampling. The data collection tools comprised demographic questionnaires, the quality of work-life questionnaire by Walton with 8 dimensions, and the valid and reliable organizational commitment scale by Meyer and Allen. The data were analyzed in SPSS, version 23 (IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York, United States), using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques, including Spearman correlation, Pearson correlation, the Kruskal–Wallis test, the Mann–Whitney U test, the χ2 test, and the independent t test. P < 0.050 was set as the level of statistical significance.

Results
The mean scores of quality of professional life and organizational commitment were 58.996 ± 14.427 and 93.840 ± 13.900, respectively, in the ICU nurses. The Pearson test showed positive and significant relationships between quality of professional life and organizational commitment (r = 0.392, P < 0.001).

Conclusions
Given the positive relationship found in the present study between organizational commitment and quality of professional life, it is recommended that organizational commitment be modified to improve the quality of professional life in nurses.

Relationship between quality of professional life and organizational commitment in intensive care unit nurses

Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery

Frontiers of Nursing

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Objective
The quality of professional life has attracted the attention of many managers owing to its importance, and organizational commitment differs...

Relationship between quality of professional life and organizational commitment in intensive care unit nurses

Article Category: Original article

Data publikacji: 30 gru 2021

Zakres stron: 399 - 406

Otrzymano: 09 lut 2021

Przyjęty: 08 kwi 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2021-0040

Słowa kluczowe
quality of professional life, organizational commitment, nurses, ICU, CCU

© 2021 Mahboobeh Magharei et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Relationship between quality of professional life and organizational commitment in intensive care unit nurses

Article Category: Original article

Data publikacji: 30 gru 2021

Zakres stron: 399 - 406

Otrzymano: 09 lut 2021

Przyjęty: 08 kwi 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2021-0040

Słowa kluczowequality of professional life, organizational commitment, nurses, ICU, CCU

© 2021 Mahboobeh Magharei et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
quality of professional life, organizational commitment, nurses, ICU, CCU