Quality of Life, spirituality and anxiety level of students at a federal university

• Autor(a) principal: Pilger, Calíope
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Alves, Rodrigo, Marques Pereira, Luana, Assis Araújo, Edson, Gomes Martins, Priscila, Sadoyama Leal, Geraldo, Andrea Storch , Jalusa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: HU Revista (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/hurevista/article/view/34037
• topic: Quality of Life; Students; Spirituality; Anxiety; Universities; Calidad de Vida; Estudiantes: Espiritualidad; Ansiedad; Universidad;; Qualidade de Vida; Estudantes; Espiritualidade; Ansiedade; Universidades

Introduction: The admission in to academic life is accompanied by numerous changes in the students' quality of life (QoL), and in many cases, anxiety is evidenced as a symptom that can be alleviated by the practices of spirituality. Objective: Analyze the relationship of QoL with spirituality and level of anxiety among students. Material and Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative study, with 71 students from a Federal University. It was use an instrument to identify sociodemographic, economic and religious data, WHOQOL-bref, State – Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Spirituality Scale. Descriptive quantitative analysis was used, like the Pearson correlation, with a significance level of 0.05. Results: in the WHOQOL-bref it was noted the social relationships domain had the highest mean 61,54. In the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), it was noticed that 56,3% had a moderate level of anxiety and 32,4% had a high level and 11,3% had a low level of Trait Anxiety. In the State Anxiety, 64,8% of the students had a moderate level, 2,8% a low level and 32,4% a high level of anxiety. In the scale of spirituality, it was found that the question “I learned to value the little things in life” had the highest average of answers. When performing the correlation, it was observed that the higher the values ​​of the psychological domain, the lower the values ​​for Trait anxiety (p=0,048), and that the higher the values ​​for the environment domain, the lower the values ​​for State Anxiety (p=0,020) and the higher the values ​​of spirituality (p<0,0001). Conclusion: The students had anxiety, whether low, moderate or high, and that there is a positive relationship between quality of life and spirituality. And yet, working on this theme in the academic environment is important to know the health profile of students to propose care strategies.