title: A literature review of factors related to hospital nurses' health-related quality of life.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To conduct a literature review in order to determine the predictors of nurses' health-related quality of life and to clarify the implications for nursing management and future study in this area.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Good health is essential to the performance of health care workers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Relevant studies were retrieved from PubMed, Medline, CINAHL, the Japan Medical Abstract Society, and the Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic. The studies selected for this review were published in English or Japanese between 1995 and 2012, investigated nurses' health-related quality of life. The identified predictive factors of each study were categorised according to type.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Based on the criteria, 22 studies were reviewed. The predictive factors of nurses' health-related quality of life were classified into eight categories.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Age and occupational stress should be considered when examining unknown predictive factors of nurses' health-related quality of life. In addition, it may be useful to adopt a conceptual framework and consider patient and organisational factors in future research.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is necessary to identify nurses' occupational stressors and consider age during job placement in order to support their health.
authors: Doctoral Program in Comprehensive Health Nursing Science, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
authors: Yumiko
authors: Y
authors: Oyama
authors: Department of System Management in Nursing, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
authors: Hiroki
authors: H
authors: Fukahori
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D013315:Stress, Psychological
keywords: health personnel; health-related quality of life; literature review; narrative review; nurses