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Abstract
Background
Healthcare personnel's professional autonomy and professional quality of life can influence the quality of care provided to patients. However, there is scarce and contradictory information available about the relationship between these two factors. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between professional autonomy and professional quality of life among operating room personnel.
Methods
This cross-sectional study was conducted in teaching hospitals in the south of Iran in 2023. The sample consisted of 464 operating room personnel who were selected by quota sampling. Data were collected using Dempster Professional Autonomy Scale and Stamm's Professional Quality of Life Scale. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS v. 24. Level of significance was set at 0.05.
Results
The participants’ professional autonomy mean score was found to be average (92.6 ± 73.32). Among the subscales of professional quality of life, the participants’ highest and lowest mean scores were for compassion satisfaction (35.3 ± 3.75) and secondary traumatic stress (31.2 ± 9.94) respectively. Also, the researchers found a significant inverse correlation between professional autonomy on the one hand and the professional quality of life subscales of burnout (p = 0.017, r = -0.111) and secondary traumatic stress (p = 0.005, r = -0.131) on the other. Moreover, there was a significant correlation between the operating room personnel's employment status on the one hand and professional autonomy (p = 0.004, r = -0.133) and burnout (p = 0.034, r = -0.099) on the other. The results also showed a significant inverse correlation between the subscale of burnout on the one hand and the variables of age (p = 0.021, r = -0.107) and work experience (p = 0.027, r = -0.103) on the other.
Conclusion
In view of the findings of the study, the healthcare system administrators are recommended to adopt effective policies and strategies to promote operating room personnel's professional autonomy and professional quality of life.
期刊介绍：
The objective of this new online journal is to serve as a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed source of information related to the administrative, economic, operational, safety, and quality aspects of the ambulatory and in-patient operating room and interventional procedural processes. The journal will provide high-quality information and research findings on operational and system-based approaches to ensure safe, coordinated, and high-value periprocedural care. With the current focus on value in health care it is essential that there is a venue for researchers to publish articles on quality improvement process initiatives, process flow modeling, information management, efficient design, cost improvement, use of novel technologies, and management.
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