Relationship between life satisfaction and quality of life in Turkish nursing school students

Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between life satisfaction and quality of life of nursing students. This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with a research population of 396 nursing students who received education at a school of nursing. The research data were collected between May and June of the 2007-2008 academic year. The data collection tools included "Student Description Form," Life Satisfaction Scale, and WHOQOL-BREF (TR) Quality of Life (QOL) Scale. The mean score of life satisfaction was 22.90 ± 5.74. Participants' QOL mean scores were 67.16 ± 15.29 in the physical domain, 64.33 ± 14.72 in the psychological domain, 62.81 ± 19.12 in the social relationships domain, and 60.59 ± 12.59 in the environmental domain. There was a significant correlation between life satisfaction and the four main domains of quality of life scores (P < 0.05) and that there was a significant positive correlation between life satisfaction and quality of life among nursing students. In addition, it was determined that being a nursing student had a positive effect on students' life satisfaction and quality of life. Therefore, the education system is recommended to be redesigned in such a way as to make students more active and to improve their life satisfaction and quality of life.

Assesing Time Management Skills and Life Satisfaction of the Nursing Students

“…Çalışmamızda öğrencilerin yaşam doyumu ortalama puanları çalışmamızda 20.48±6.43 olarak bulundu. Yıldırım ve arkadaşları (33) tarafından yapılan çalış-mada, öğrencilerin yaşam doyumu ortalama puanı 22.90±5.74 olduğu saptanmıştır. Akhunlar tarafından yapılan çalışmada ise 20.1±6.2 olarak bildirilmiştir (34) .…”

Satisfaction with academic experience among undergraduate nursing students

“…[2][3][4]7 Therefore, the starting point of this study is the lack of information about satisfaction with the academic experience among undergraduate nursing students at a public university in southern Brazil.…”

“…[5][6] A successful higher education institution is the one that is constantly seeking to improve and develop its ability to meet the needs and expectations of students and professors. 7 In the context of nursing, it is essential to understand how students experience their undergraduate course, since feelings of suffering and stress can be identified in students who are dissatisfied, which can affect their academic lives, their professional future, their working environment and relationships, as well as people with whom they will interact and the care services they will provide. 8 In this sense, nursing students' satisfaction with their undergraduate program is essential and can serve as an instrument of assessment of institutional effectiveness and success.…”

Quality of life of undergraduate nursing students at a Brazilian public university

“…2 In the national and international scientific literature, in the health education field and especially in nursing education, QOL has been a subject of major interest. 1,[3][4][5][6][7][8] Nursing students represent a group of individuals who are constantly compromising their QOL. To perform the actions of their training, they face situations of suffering and stress, such as helping human beings to be born, overcome problems and limitations, and die with dignity.…”