Investigation of Job Satisfaction Amongst Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers and Health centers in Iran

Background: Job satisfaction is the persons’ feeling about their job and if personnel haven't good feel to his work, can destroy all plans, intentionally or unintentionally. The present research aims to investigate and compare job satisfaction in the employees and therapists of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers vs. Health centers in 9 provinces of Iran. Methods: All employees of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers were included from Fars, Bushehr, Tehran, Isfahan, South Khorasan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, Kerman, and Yazd provinces as case group and 103 staffs of similar Health centers selected with the same ratio as the staffs of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers as control samples and answered to Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ). Results: : 50.5% of Health centers employees and 54% of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers employees had high job satisfaction. Other than age and subscale management style no one of data had significant difference between 2 groups. Conclusion: According to the findings, in the Iranian treatment centers, the employees’ satisfaction will be at the same level regardless of their position and workplace. Also, the eastern and western regions of the country reported higher satisfaction than the southern and central regions.