Análise da qualidade de vida dos profissionais da saúde de ESFS do município de Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

Objective: The healthcare professionals in the teams of Family Health Strategys are part of a network of primary healthcare and work with the inscribed population of a determined territory so that such may be tended, in that complexity, the greatest array of possibilities, wich may be at times the cause of a work overload for such proffessionals whom are often exposed to precarious work conditions caused as much by the lack of personel as by the lack of apparel and infraestructure. It is possible that the healthcare proffessionals’ quality of life may be directly correlated to the quality of life within the work enviroment, reflecting directly at the professionals’ productivity and wellbeing. Objective: The goal of this study is to assess the quality of life in the healthcare proffesionals’ work enviroment in mínimal teams of Family Health Strategys stationed at the county of Rio grande do Sul, Brazil. Methodology: It is classified as a cross-sectioned study, developed from december 2017 to january 2018, with the sample of 93 heathcare proffessionals whom work at the public network of the county. The data was colected by means of a QWLQ-78 questionnaire and a sociodemographic quiz. The statistic analisis of the sociodemographic quiz was developed through the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 18.0. The instrument QWLQ-78 alows for an exclusive syntax for tabulation and analisis of data in an electronic sheet. Results and discussion: The sociodemographic characteristics show that 90,3% of the participants are of the feminine sex, average age of 41 years, married or in a legally binding union 62% and 77% have offspring. The healthcare proffessionals have an average of 6 years worked at the location where the quizes were applied. About the instrument QWLQ-78, we observed the lowest of 54,34 in the Fisical/Health domain, considered neutral in comparison to the other domains, and the greatest score of 66,45 at the Personal domain, a satisfactory assessment, such as the Psicological domain 57,85 resulting at the WVT domain of 59. In Conclusion, in this study no domain has been presented in an insactisfactory way for its participants. We can also conclude that this study may serve as a guideline for the enhacement of heathcare professionals’ work conditions at the Family Health Strategys providing improvement of the quality of life in their work enviroment and outside of it.