The effect of clinical leadership characteristics on quality of life components in healthcare workers

The aim of the research was to clarify the effect of clinicians' clinical leadership characteristics on compassion fatigue, professional satisfaction and burnout, which are the sub-dimensions of quality of life components. The sample of the research is located in Isparta province; it consists of 911 healthcare professionals working at Süleyman Demirel University Research Hospital, Isparta City Hospital, Private Isparta Hospital and Private Davraz Yaşam Hospital. The data in the research were obtainned through survey technigue. In the study, the "Clinical Leadership Scale" whose Turkish validity and reliability study was conducted by Budak (2016) and the "Quality of Life Scale for Employees" whose Turkish validity and reliability study was conducted by Yeşil et al. (2010) were used. In order to analyze the research model, descriptive statistics, reliability, validity, confirmatory factor analysis and correlation analyzes of the collected data were conducted through SPSS and AMOS programs. As the consequences of analysis: among the subdimension of clinical leadership; personal characteristics, working with others, management of services, improvement of services and setting up directions positively affected professional satisfaction which is one of the sub-dimensions of Quality of Life for Employees Components and negatively affected with the other sub-dimensions of burnout and compassion fatigue. In the difference analysis, it was seen that all sub-dimensions of Clinical Leadership were higher in private hospitals than in public hospitals. It has been determined that the perception levels of working with others, improving services and managing services are higher in surgical branches than in internal branches. No significant difference was observed between the Clinical Leadership perception levels of physicians and nurses.