Qualidade de vida de cirurgiões-dentistas que atuam no serviço público

• Autor(a) principal: Rovida, Tânia Adas Saliba [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Saliba, Nemre Adas [UNESP], Lima, Daniela Pereira [UNESP], Garbin, Cléa Adas Saliba [UNESP], Moimaz, Suzely Adas Saliba [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufes.br/RBPS/article/view/7595; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/133358
• topic: Quality of life; Dentists; World Health Organization; Qualidade de vida; Odontólogos; Organização Mundial da Saúde

Introduction: The quality of life of dentists has worsened over time, due to increased risks of labor and competitiveness in the labor market. However, there are only few studies about it. Objective: Investigate the perception of quality of life of dentists working in public service. Methods: In order to accomplish that, a cross-sectional study survey was conducted with 52 dentists of the professional permanent staff of the Municipal Health Service. The data were collected through structured questionnaire, validated, self-administered, proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its shortened version, WHOQOL-Bref. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression were conducted, taking 95% as the confidence interval that characterizes the sample and the calculation of scores for each domain. Results: There was predominance of female subjects (76.9%) the majority of them aged 25 to 35 years (48.7%). Most professionals consider their quality of life good (82.7%), and were satisfied with their health (71.2%). Considering the measures of central tendency and dispersion, the physical domain (13.8) and Environment (13.8) had the lowest mean scores. All areas affected equally poor quality of life of research participants. The facets that showed the lowest values were the physical environment with 39.71 points and 53.92 points to financial resources. Conclusion: The majority of professionals were satisfied with their health and considered their quality of life good.