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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Anxiety and Stress Disorders
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1447816
This article is part of the Research Topic Case Reports in Anxiety and Stress Disorders View all 4 articles
Assessment of Relationship between Health Anxiety and Iranian Nurses' Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Study
Provisionally accepted
Masoud Rezaei 1*
Zahra Amoozadeh 2 Yazdan Ahmadi 2 Amir Hosein Pishgooie 2 Mehdi Fallah 3 Fatemeh Rumyani 2
Reza Momen 2*- 1 Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- 2 Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- 3 Dezful University of Medical Sciences (DUMS), Dezful, Khuzestan, Iran
Background: Nurses are one of the most important pillars of any health organization, and their mental health is of great importance. Health anxiety is one of the factors that affect the psychological health of nurses and the presence of this disorder among nurses will change their quality of life.Objective: This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the level of health anxiety and its relationship with the quality of life of nurses working in selected hospitals of Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Methodology: In this descriptive-analytical study, 257 nurses working in different departments of selected Aja hospitals were randomly selected and their health anxiety levels were measured using the short version of Salkoskis and Varik's Health Anxiety Questionnaire and their quality of life was measured using World Health Organization quality of life questionnaire was evaluated. Finally, the relationship between health anxiety and nurses' quality of life was evaluated.Results: 257 nurses who met the study entry criteria were randomly selected. Their mean health anxiety was evaluated as 35.21; This statistic shows that nurses' health anxiety is at an average level. In addition, health anxiety was negatively associated with total score of the QOL (r = - 0.18, P = 0.003). Moreover, this relationship was significant for physical health (r = -0.14, P = 0.01), psychological health (r = -0.30, P <0.001), social relationships (r = -0.31, P <0.001) , and social environment(r = -0.21, P <0.001).Conclusion: This study showed that there is a significant relationship between health anxiety and different dimensions of quality of life, so that the quality of life of nurses decreases with the increase of health anxiety.Key words: Health Anxiety, Quality of Life, Nurses
Keywords: Health anxiety, Quality of Life, Nurses, Military nurse, Occupational stress
Received: 12 Jun 2024; Accepted: 14 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Rezaei, Amoozadeh, Ahmadi, Pishgooie, Fallah, Rumyani and Momen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Masoud Rezaei, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Reza Momen, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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