Quality of life evaluation of emergency professionals of public units of reference / Avaliação da qualidade de vida dos profissionais de emergência de unidades públicas de referência

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the quality of life of emergency professionals in public units of reference units in Rio Branco-Acre. METHODS: Cross-sectional and exploratory cross-sectional study, with 212 emergency professionals from October 2016 to June 2017. TheWe used the WHOQOL-bref questionnaires were used for quality of life questionnaires, the Epworth sleepiness scale, the Pittsburgh sleep quality index of Pittsburgh sleep, the international physical activity questionnaire-IPAQ-short versionform, the nutritional status, and the socio-demographic variables questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics with the SPSS software, version 20.0, assuming a level of significance of 0.05. To verify the normality of the data, the Pearson's chi-square test, the Shapiro-Wilk test and the non-parametric Spearman’s nonparametric test were used to verify theperform the analyses of correlations betweenamong the variables of quality of life, health conditions and socio-demographic variables. RESULTS: The nursing category was the most studied with 68% (p = 0.045), and 39.2% (p = 0.611) presented an age range between 30-40 years. Among the professionals, 78.8% (p = 0.618) worked on rotatingional shifts, wherein which 41.5% (p = 0.093) presented a poor subjective sleep quality of bad sleep, being more expressive in men, with 50.6% (p = 0.093). Among men, higher risk behaviors were observed, with 11.1% (p = 0.003) for diabetes and 29.8% (p = 0.024) of the women presented with other diseases. According toRegarding the physical and psychological domains, the lowest meanssaverage of quality of life were evaluated in womenthe female sex (62.00 ± 17.00 and 67.23 ± 16.52), both domains with p <0.001 and in the 51-60 age range 51-60 yearsof(59.10 ± 17.12 and 64.58 ± 18.16) with p = 0.024 and p = 0.037. CONCLUSION: The quality of life of emergency professionals is linked to different factors that may directly interfere with public health.