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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Research Open Access The health related quality of life of the employees in the Greek hospitals: assessing how healthy are the health workers Yannis Tountas*1, Panayotes TH Demakakos2, Yannis Yfantopoulos2, Jenny Aga2, Lambrini Houliara2 and Elpida Pavi2 Address: 1Center for Health Services Research, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece and 2Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Athens, Greece Email: Yannis Tountas* - chsr@; Panayotes TH Demakakos - pandim@; Yannis Yfantopoulos - chsr@; Jenny Aga - chsr@; Lambrini Houliara - chsr@; Elpida Pavi - chsr@ * Corresponding author Published: 27 October 2003 Health and. | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access The health related quality of life of the employees in the Greek hospitals assessing how healthy are the health workers Yannis Tountas 1 Panayotes TH Demakakos2 Yannis Yfantopoulos2 Jenny Aga2 Lambrini Houliara2 and Elpida Pavi2 Address 1Center for Health Services Research Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology Medical School University of Athens Athens Greece and institute of Social and Preventive Medicine Athens Greece Email Yannis Tountas - chsr@ Panayotes TH Demakakos - pandim@ Yannis Yfantopoulos - chsr@ Jenny Aga - chsr@ Lambrini Houliara - chsr@ Elpida Pavi - chsr@ Corresponding author Published 27 October 2003 Received 08 May 2003 Accepted 27 October 2003 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1 61 r This article is available from http content 1 1 61 2003 Tountas et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Background The main aim of the study was to assess the health status and health related quality of life of the personnel of the Hellenic Network of Health Promotion Hospitals. The instrument used was SF-36. An additional aim was to contribute to the validation of the SF-36. Methods The study instrument was administered to 347 randomly selected employees from seven hospitals within major Athens area. Completed questionnaire were obtained by 292 employees. The statistical significance of the observed differences was tested with parametric t-test and ANOVA and non-parametric tests Mann-Whitney and Kruskall-Wallis . Also since the Greek national norms have not been published yet the mean scores on all eight SF-36 dimensions of this study were compared with the and several European national norms just to assess the .