IntroductionLife Satisfaction (LS) is a subjective, cognitive evaluation of an individual's life as a whole [1]. Nowadays the relationship between psychological factors and somatic health has been a growing field of research interest [2,3]. Judgments regarding satisfaction depend on comparing life circumstances against a standard considered appropriate [4]. Women comprise nearly half of the national population of any country. Hence the development of any country is inseparably linked with the status of acquired supreme significances [5]. These modern life stresses are job security, not earning enough money, disagreement with colleagues and friends and lack of personal time. However there are many more which are region and culture specific. It is of utmost importance among working women of health sector as they have inbuilt job stress. This is partly because medical service involves taking care of other people's lives therefore mistakes or errors could be costly and sometimes irreversible. It is thus expected that the morbid worries and anxieties. Safe, effective, convenient and affordable medical and health services could be achieved through the establishment and improvement of basic healthcare systems. Theory and research from field outside of rehabilitation have suggested that LS is one factor in the more general construct of subjective well being [4]. Study conducted on Iranian women through self reporting questionnaires [6] and on among old age residents of Jammu [7] have revealed the various domains of life satisfaction as health, economic, personal, social, family and job satisfaction. The process of adjustment also by its inherent nature involves active coping with internal and external satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Socio demography of an individual has been identified as an important predictor of life satisfaction and quality both by a study conducted in Northern Cyprus [8] and Poland [9]. Studies across India have been conducted among different working class women or on post menopausal women. So far, there is a paucity of literature focusing on correlates of satisfaction among health care sector females. The present study is first of its kind in an attempt to report the prevalence of life satisfaction and its socio demographic correlates among working women of health sector. Besides this, the present study also aims to report the domain specific associations with various socio demographic variables.
Methodology Study design and study populationA Cross Sectional study was conducted among women staff in campus of tertiary care hospital and attached medical college of Delhi. The minimum sample size calculated to study the prevalence and correlates of life satisfaction among women in health sector came out to be 315 at 95% confidence interval (taking prevalence in females from literature as 27%) [10]. To account for non response of 10% we approached 347 working professional and paramedical staff women for a period of six months (September 2011 to June 2012) of which 345 women agreed to participate in th...