the survey of relationship between job stress and job satisfaction of midwives who working in isfahan maternities

background: job stress is one of the most leading factors causing physical and mental symptoms as well as midwives job discontent and it will consequently lead to decrease service quality. as mental and physical health of midwives can affect the health of mothers and babies directly and indirectly, thus, current study is aimed to explore the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction of midwives who working in maternities of isfahan city. methods: this study was cross- sectional survey. population was 106 midwives who were working in maternities of isfahan city. data was collected by questionnaire, moreover; data was analyzed by spss (ver.20), descriptive and inferential statistical test including one- way anova, pearson correlation, spearman correlation and independent t-test. findings: it maintained that the mean of midwives job stress score was 41 ±25.8 (from 100 score) and the mean of job satisfaction score was 44.75±16.43. pearson correlation statistical test showed significant reverse relationship between job stress and job satisfaction of midwives (p<0.001, r=-0.806). there was also a significant relationship between job stress and numerous aspects of job satisfaction (p<0.05). there was not significant correlation among job stress and job satisfaction with demographic characteristics considering age, marital status, job experience and education. conclusion: the findings suggest that planners of health organizations should be used appropriate strategies strive to decrease stress, prevent mental and physical effects in midwives and increase job satisfaction. aforementioned steps will lead probably to both increase efficacy of health organizations and quality of services to mothers and babies that can be mentioned as two at risk groups.