comparison of lifestyle of nurses with and without covid-19 working in hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences

Background: health and lifestyle are very important considering the current coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic. in the meantime, the lifestyle of nurses is of two-fold importance regarding their role in providing a wide range of services. objectives: the present study aimed to determine and compare the lifestyle of nurses with and without covid-19 working in hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. methods: this comparative study was performed on 500 nurses working in hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences in 2021. the study population included 500 nurses with (n = 250) and without (n = 250) covid-19 nurses. the used research methods complied with the strobe checklist. the data were collected using a demographic information questionnaire and a cross-culturally adapted nurses’ lifestyle questionnaire. data analysis was performed using spss software (version 25) and descriptive and inferential statistical tests. a p-value less than 0.05 was considered the significance level. results: the mean age values of participants with and without covid-19 were 33.9 ± 8.35 and 35.7 ± 7.02 years, respectively. the statistical t-test showed that the overall lifestyle score was significantly higher in nurses with covid-19 (4.06 ± 0.39) than in nurses without covid-19 (3.90 ± 0.43) (p = 0.010). the overall score of lifestyle subscales in the covid-19 group was higher than the noncovid-19 group. in this regard, the highest subscale score was related to the competence dimension in both covid-19 (4.69 ± 0.300) and noncovid-19 (4.57 ± 0.418) groups (p = 0.001). conclusions: the lifestyle of covid-19 nurses is better than noncovid-19 nurses. accordingly, planning is necessary to improve the lifestyle of nurses during the covid-19 pandemic, especially nurses without covid-19.