Table 2. Mean quality of working life scores among night-shift healthcare workers according to their professional category (n = 1,387, AP-HP ALADDIN survey, Paris public hospitals).
| Scores calculated from the WRQoL scale1 [35] (range) | Professional category of NSHW | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole study population (n = 1,387) | Nurses (52.3%) | Assistant nurses or technicians (38.2%) | Midwives (4.2%) | Executives (0.8%) | Other categories (4.6%) | p-value 2 | |
| mean (SD) | |||||||
| GLOBAL WORK-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE SCORE | |||||||
| Full-scale WRQoL score (0 to 115) | 70.5 (12.0) | 69.6 (10.6) | 71.7 (14.2) | 70.2 (15.7) | 73.0 (5.8) | 70.9 (20.1) | 0.001 |
| SCORES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SIX DIMENSIONS OF WORK-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE | |||||||
| General well-being (GWB) (0 to 30) | 19.3 (4.2) | 19.2 (3.8) | 19.5 (4.9) | 19.3 (5.3) | 19.2 (1.9) | 19.5 (7.1) | 0.844 |
| Home-work interface (HWI) (0 to 15) | 9.2 (2.1) | 9 (1.9) | 9.4 (2.4) | 8.4 (2.9) | 9.6 (1.0) | 9.6 (2.7) | <0.001 |
| Job and career satisfaction (JCS) (0 to 30) | 18.8 (3.8) | 18.7 (3.2) | 18.9 (4.5) | 19.4 (6.2) | 20.4 (1.8) | 18.6 (7.2) | 0.060 |
| Control at work (CAW) (0 to 15) | 9.3 (2.6) | 9.2 (2.3) | 9.4 (3.0) | 10.3 (3.5) | 9.9 (1.1) | 8.7 (4.7) | 0.025 |
| Working conditions (WCS) (0 to 15) | 8.2 (2.6) | 8.0 (2.4) | 8.5 (2.9) | 7.7 (3.1) | 8.8 (1.2) | 8.7 (3.9) | 0.021 |
| Stress at work (SAW) (0 to 10) | 5.7 (1.9) | 5.6 (1.7) | 6.0 (2.1) | 5.1 (2.4) | 5.2 (0.9) | 5.9 (3.0) | 0.002 |
NSHW = night-shift healthcare workers; IQR = interquartile range; SD = standard deviation; WRQoL = work-related quality of life.
1 For each score, higher values denote better quality of working life.
2 Comparison of mean scores between the five professional categories of NSHW (Wald test).