Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) of Health Care Providers in Manipur, India

Abstract

Introduction: Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) relates to comfort and satisfaction in a profession. Health care providers are exposed to great level of stress and traumatic events in their job. This study aimed at de-termining the ProQOL of health care providers in Bishnupur district. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted among health care providers of Bishnupur district, Ma-nipur during 24 January-24 February 2021. The participants were 153 healthcare providers from district hospital, CHCs and PHCs using a convenience method. The instrument for collecting data consisted of “Profes-sional Quality of Life Measure version 5(ProQOL-5)” questionnaire. Chi square test and Pearson’s r correlation was used for analysis. Results: Mean age of the participants was 37.54 + 9.1 years. The mean values for the domain compassion satisfaction (CS), secondary traumatic stress (STS), burnout (BO) was 36.7 + 5.2, 23.2+ 4.5 and 23.3 + 5.6 respec-tively. BO and STS were positively correlated. There was no significant association between other domains. Participants who had night shifts had more BO level compared to others. Conclusion: Majority of the participants had moderate CS and STS. Those having prolonged duty hours expe-rienced more burnout compared to others.