A Study on the Correlation between Healthcare Workers' Stress from Work and Their Quality of Life-Based on Accredited Hospitals in Taiwan

Along with the change in social environment, institutional workers are subject to increasing stress from work, particularly in medical institutions, which may affects quality of life. (1) To look into status quo of stress from work and quality of life for healthcare workers throughout Taiwan. (2) To investigate into demographic variables upon stress from work and quality of life. (3) To analyze the correlation between stress from work and quality of life. We invited healthcare workers from non-psychiatric hospitals in Taiwan accredited by the Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation in 2007 as our research subjects. We issued a total of 12,000 questionnaires, among them 7,840 were valid, which constituted a 65.33% of valid return. We conducted t-test, one way ANOVA, Scheff post-hoc comparison and Pearson correlation analysis to check and verify the results. Different demographic variables demonstrated significant differences in response to impact from different aspects of stress from work and quality of life. The stress from work and quality of life in various aspects therefore demonstrated significantly negative correlation. Hospitals are not only advised to take into account the stress sources, but also to consider psychological feel as the most important part. Future researches are suggested to continue the investigation by longitudinal study for comparison to this cross-sectional study, or to broaden the research subjects to compare between hospitals and enterprises so as to obtain handy reference to minimize stress from work and to enhance quality of life for workers.