health-related quality of life measured by sf-36 in iranian nurses: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background]nurses are the largest group in the health care system. they should have a good quality of life to be able to provide patients with highquality care. the aim of the present study was to investigate the healthrelated quality of life (hrqol) among iranian nurses.[methods]in this systematic review and metaanalysis, a systematic search was conducted in 2018 for persian and english articles on the nurses’ quality of life published in the scientific information database (sid), magiran, google scholar, isi/web of science, pubmed, and scopus. the cochrane q test and i² test statistic were used to test heterogeneity between studies. because of heterogeneity, the data were analyzed using the random and fixedeffects models. all analyses were performed using stata, version 14.[results]overall, 13 articles with a total sample size of 4274 patients were included in the analysis. the mean hrqol score of iranian nurses was 60.52 (95% ci: 57.10 63.93). the mean score of the physical dimension of hrqol (63.34 with 95% ci: 57.98 68.71) was higher than the score of psychological dimension (60.72 with 95% ci: 57.80 63.64) in iranian nurses. the results of the metaregression analysis showed no significant association between the total hrqol score and the nurses’ age (p = 0.973) and the sample size (p = 0.12).[conclusions]the hrqol of iranian nurses is not very good. it seems necessary to develop strategies aimed at improving the hrqol of iranian patients, especially their physical domain.