The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of shift work on marital satisfaction of female nurses and its predictor variables. A randomly selected sample from 6 different hospitals, from both day and night shift, were given ENRICH questionnaire to measure marital satisfaction. T-tests revealed that night shift nurses are significantly lower than day shift ones on two variables namely "Sexual relationships" and "Financial management" (p<0.02), but not on marital satisfaction subscale. Based on path analysis method, it was found that shift work has direct effect (0.09) and indirect effect through "Communication" on "Sexual relationship" and "Financial management" (0.08). In total, shift work accounted for 0.17 of variance of marital satisfaction. These results indicate that participants are likely to be adapted to night shift work over the time, and at the time of the study it seems that shift work might only had affected those aspects of marital satisfaction which demand more physical closeness such as sexual relationship. It seems that educating shift workers on time management and conflict resolution could help them to control the discussed interferences more effectively.

Background: A large number of workers all over the world work in shift work schedules. Shift work and especially night work can disturb normal body rhythm especially sleep-wake cycle. Nurses as a member of health care workers should work in days and nights. Shift work in addition to its effect on nurse’s personal life can affect his (her) alertness and can decrease productivity and eventually endangers patients’ life.Methods: In this cross-sectional study nurses working in the hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of medical sciences were divided into two groups: shift workers (case) and fixed day workers (control). These groups were matched for age, and employment duration. All subjects were selected from different hospital wards. We used two questionnaires, a questionnaire about demographic data and Epworth sleepiness scale. Questionnaires were filled by the nurses under direct supervision of the researcher. Data were analyzed using SPSS (ver.17) by T test and chi square test.Results: 55 subjects were assessed in each group. Mean ESS point was 8.07 and 6.80 in case and control groups, respectively. This difference was statistically significant. Sleepiness was observed in 29.1% and 14.5% of cases and controls, respectively, but this difference was not statistically significant.Conclusion: In all, sleepiness was not so common among nurses and in spite of higher frequency of sleepiness among cases; the difference was not statistically significant.

Introduction: Nurses play a fundamental role on continuity of care and health promotion and affect organizational utilization. Awareness of nurses’ viewpoint on relationship between working shifts and human resource utilization provides the possibility of increasing their utilization and helps managers in achieving their major and crucial mission of increased utilization.Objective: This study aims to determine the relationship between nurses’ working shifts and utilizing human resources in state hospitals in northwest of Guilan province.Methods: This research is descriptive analytical cross-sectional study. Study sample included nurses with a Bachelor degree and higher and 184 nurses were chosen by random stratified sampling method. The tool of data gathering was a questionnaire that its validity was obtained through the content validity by grasping the views of Professors of management and nursing and its reliability was attained through test-retest process. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive – statistical test (One-way ANOVA and student T) by SPSS software.Results: Using one-way ANOVA the results showed that five factors of organizational culture, environmental conditions, motivational factors, enabling and leadership style were significantly affected by working shifts. Among these factors, the factor of organizational culture had the most effect on nurses utilization in the working shifts (p<0.05).Conclusion: Human resource utilization was highest in the morning shifts and then rotating shifts, evening shifts and night shifts were reported.

Introduction: Mental health is one of the social needs and disorders such as depression and anxiety are discussed as the most common diseases, today. Nurses who working the night shift more than other professions in other scheduling are vulnerable to psychological stress.Aim: This study was done for assessing the relationship of the night shift work with nurses' depression and anxiety in hospitals of Chalous city in 2014.Methods and Materials: It was a descriptive-correlation study that (140) nurses who worked in night shift selected randomly according to Krejcie and Morgan’s. Beck depression-II and Beck anxiety inventories were used for collection data. In past, their reliability measured in Iran, in this study a Chronbach were (0.93 and 0.92) respectively. Data analyses by Pearson test, MANOVA and independent t-test with SPSS17.Results: The findings indicated that there was a positive and significant relationship between the night shift work and nurses' depression and anxiety (P£.05). In other words, the night shift work has correlated with nurses' depression and anxiety. Also, gender and education has no relationship with nurses' depression and anxiety of night shift work (P>.05). There was not a significant difference between nurses' depression and anxiety of night shift work based on their marital status (P>.05).Conclusion: It would be suggested that nurse managers plan properly in scheduling and decreased night shift in regarding to improve nurses' mental health.