Qualidade de vida do estudante de medicina

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Ludmilla Marques de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/001300000c5cv
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5720
• topic: Estudantes de medicina; Qualidade de vida; Educação médica; Medical students; Quality of life; Medical education; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA

The Medical School is both a backdrop of accomplishments and dreams, but also where academics are faced with stressors that require hard adaptation processes. It is important to know both of these factors to characterize the health of the medical student, and thus enable the development of methodological strategies to mitigate the effects of these factors on those individuals considered to be at higher risk, improving the quality of life of this population. Objective: To evaluate the quality of life of medical students, and to identify factors associated with reduction of the scores of their domains. Methods: We conducted an epidemiological study of descriptive, analytical and cross-sectional. To do this research, we chose a medical school of a private university in the central-western Brazil. Four hundred and eighty-eight students spread from first to fifth grade participated in the study. A meeting was held in the very educational institution where the students individually answered the WHOQOL-BREF instrument, complying with WHO recommendations for implementation, and also responded to the socio-demographic questionnaire. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Goiás. Results: No physical activity influenced the four domains of quality of life. Alone, scores of physical domain were reduced when associated with female gender, older age and need for family economic aid; the psychological domain, the stage in which the student was in progress; the social field was impaired among students who attended high school in public school or who were not in some kind of relationship. Environmental domain scores were reduced among students of full age, in later periods of the course, I had no home, whose mother had no higher education or whose parents did not live together. Conclusion: The quality of life of medical students, when evaluated by the WHOQOL-BREF, found that female sex, older age, need for family economic aid, no physical activity, among others, as significant factors associated with lower scores of fields of quality of life, and the lack of physical activity the only factor associated with a reduction of the scores of all domains of quality of life, having been the most significant finding. The quality of life of medical students is committed to all areas, increasingly over the course of medical training, and each domain is associated with factors that can be interpreted as vulnerable conditions for these scholars. It is recommended to carry out further studies that may support these findings and strengthen policies aimed at this group of students.