Title of the article: Study of the level of job satisfaction and psychological symptoms and related factors among health care staff in Zahedan

Job satisfaction is one of the characteristic reasons for any organization's success and promotion, especially health organizations. Dissatisfaction can lead to psychological-social problems. This study assesses the level of job satisfaction and psychological symptoms, and related factors among healthcare staff in Zahedan.

 This cross-sectional descriptive research studied a Convenience Sampling of 168 employees of health care staff in Zahedan through the census. The demographic information questionnaire, Wysocki and Krumm job satisfaction questionnaire (JDI) and SCL90 questionnaire were used to collect data. Collected data was analyzed by descriptive and analytical statistics using SPSS19 software. Data was analyzed using (mean and standard deviation), independent t-tests, one-way ANOVA analysis, and multivariate analysis of variance were applied to estimate the means.

The study showed that employees' average level of job satisfaction was Mean=3.30(SD=0.60), with the highest satisfaction being for colleagues and the lowest satisfaction for salaries and benefits. The highest psychological symptoms were for health and treatment. There was a significant correlation between education, gender, indigenousness and non-indigenousness with job satisfaction (p<0/05). Also, there was a fundamental relationship between service categories and psychological symptoms (p <0/001). This study underlined the need for effective proceedings to standardize administrative and medical staff job satisfaction. Paying attention to the mental health of health care workers, especially medical staff, is essential to improve their working lives.