Qualidade de vida do discente de medicina

Abstract

Introduction: Although there are numerous ways to conceptualize quality of life, there is no definition that is widely accepted. Currently, the World Health Organization defines quality of life as the individual's perception of your position in life, in the context of culture and value systems in which lives and in relation to your goals, expectations, standards and concerns. Cannot have a universal concept, because it is based on individual and subjective perception of the individual. Medical school is marked by numerous stress-generating factors that can influence the quality of student life, demanding his adaptation and change of living style. Objective: To identify the quality of life of students from the 1st to the last period of the UFAL medical course. Methods: we conducted a quantitative, analytical study of cross section with 370 students from 1st to 12th periods of the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Alagoas. The data collection was carried out through a questionnaire socioeconomic and demographic-specific quality of life instrument the WHOQOL BREFs statistical analysis were performed in SPSS for Windows operating system 22.0 version: descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, standard error and confidence interval of 95%) and decision-making (MANOVA) to compare the average scores of the constructs here considered, on the basis of sex and of course stage. Results: not found difference in quality of life between the sexes. There was no statistically significant difference in physical and psychological Domains between the Clinical and the boarding school Cycle but no evidence of difference in research with small effect size (η ² p) of 0.033 and 0.040 respectively. In the paired analysis between sex and cycles of the course, there was no significant difference regarding the general perception of the quality of life the media obtained was 59.29, which was considered a middling score. The same happened with the satisfaction with health whose media was 52.59. Facets: sleep, ability to perform day-to-day activities and work, leisure opportunities and negative feelings (bad mood, hopelessness, anxiety and depression) influenced negatively the quality of life of the respondents. Final considerations: Suggests greater concern of those involved in medical education to develop strategies, including recovery of interpersonal relationships, balance between study and leisure, time, health care, food and sleep, practice of physical activity, and with the development of actions to prepare the student to cope with stress during medical training. This research has generated a scientific article: QUALITY of LIFE of the STUDENTS of MEDICINE and as a technical report which will be forwarded to the Structuring of Teaching Core undergraduate program in Medicine from UFAL (NDE), Collegiate, Dean of Pro Student Affairs (PROEST) and the core of Pedagogical support of FAMED/UFAL and a video made with students directed to students calling attention to health care.