Qualidade de vida de profissionais de saúde atuantes em setores críticos

Abstract

The quality of life represents a complex design, getting more and more space between the are-as of science, a multifactorial approach associated with the various areas, such as sociology, medicine, education, nursing, psychology, among others, adding more and more space in the scientific literature. His concept has been the subject of many research studies-pes in the last decades, being assigned different connotation to it, in accordance to the historic moment and the context which it is inserted. First, it was directly related to the power of acquisition and the living conditions provided for him, however, was becoming insufficient for a broader re-view. In a new design, the quality of life is understood as a multidimensional construct, being proposed as a population health pain and evaluate it is important to provide measures to stimu-late the adoption of health promotion strategies. What is important, since the pas health-I'm also cover how the individual experiences the different areas of your life, not limited to so-matic indicators. The objective of this study was to analyze the quality of life of health pro-fessionals active in critical sectors of hospitals located in the North of Minas Gerais. Deliniou-if a cross-sectional study with 469 health professionals, we used a demographic questionnaire and WHOQOL-bref questionnaire drawn up by the World Health Organization. For the de-scriptive analysis of the data, it was determined the frequency of vari-explanatory and reliable the mean and standard deviation for each area of QOL, for variables with two categories was used the t-test and the other the test ANOVA, with comparison of va-ca average lor of the domain. The analyses were carried out in the statistical software Statistical Package for the Social Science version 20.0. The correlation of socio-demographic characteristics with the domains assessed by questionnaire, found that in all the variables there was predominance of highest average in the social field and smaller average in the environment. The mu-women presented the smaller averages in all areas assessed, as well as vocational training, di-vorced/separated or widowed with age between 20 to 39 years and that shows ram do not have religion, having children related to minors in averages social and environmental domains and those who lacked in physical and psychological domains. The professional acts-vam On-cology sector obtained the smallest medium compared to other sectors investigated, the high-est level of education joined the largest medium in the fields, in relation to the occupation performed, professionals that make up the team of en-grade, the lowest averages in all areas assessed. Finally, with respect to the variables number of jobs, workload, work shift, there was a predominance of largest medium in the social field and smaller averages in the social domain. Recognizing these elements and others assessed by the instrument, as rele-vant as significantly-terminantes of health and quality of life, these results suggest that the quality of life should be discussed by health institutions, especially critical sectors.