Inpatient's Perspective on Nursing Care; Affecting Factors

A cross- Sectional study conducted to find out patients’ perspectives of nursing performance and the factors influencing their satisfaction, on 250 patients hospitalized in 2 hospitals of Sanandaj, Iran in 2006, using Quality from the Patients’ Perspective (QPP) questionnaire. Generally, our patients satisfied weakly (48.4%) with nursing care. Inpatient satisfaction showed a significant relation to age (p=0. 000), gender (p=0. 001), level of education (p=0. 001), marital status (0.03), job (p=0. 005), personal recommendation about care (p=0. 000), family members (p=0. 005), place of residing (p=0. 001), previous hospitalization(s) (p=0. 000), shift of nursing (p=0. 000), undergoing surgery (p=0. 000) and the medical center (0.002). No significance was found in relation to duration of hospital stay (p=0. 13).