Qualidade de vida de médicos residentes, aprimorandos e aperfeiçoandos da Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto/SP

Abstract

In Brazil, a lot of health professionals search insertion in graduate degree programs such as professional residency/improvement. To finish such training process, they can pass through great difficulties with high levels of health problems that interfere in their life quality. Objective: To evaluate the quality of life of resident physicians and non-medical resident professionals of a school hospital. Casuistic and Method: The population of this study comprised 269 resident physicians, 89 non-medical resident professionals (55 aprimorandos and 34 aperfeiçoandos). To collect data WHOQOL-100 was used an instrument of World Health Organization to evaluate the life quality. Data was collected in the period from November 2008 to January 2009. The intern consistence of the WHOQOL-100 was evaluated by the Cronbach Coefficient Alpha, in which the values equal or superior to 0.70 are considered satisfactory. Results: There were 358 enrolled in vocational programs, of which 196 participated in the study, and 120 (44.61%) resident physicians, and 76 non-medical resident physicians (52 (96.30%) aprimorandos and 24 (70.59%) aperfeiçoandos) participated in the study. There was a low intern consistence in the domain level of independence (α = 0.54 / 0.48 and 0.54 for residence, non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos and aperfeiçoandos), respectively and in the social relationship domain for the nonmedical resident professionals (α = 0.68). Considering respectively residents and nonmedical resident professionals (aprimorandos and aperfeiçoandos), presented higher average scores were: independence level (77.18 / 75.03 / 82.29); spiritual/religion aspects (74.01 / 77.76 / 83.59) and social relationship (68.80 / 69.79 / 71.18) domains; the lower scores were for the psychological (63.38 / 61.37 / 66.87), environmental (62.46 / 59.15 / 58.93) and physical (57.36 / 55.73 / 61.72) domains. The characteristics with higher scores were: dependence on medication or treatments (88.54 / 82.57 /93.94), personal relationship (70.31 /74.27 / 76.30) and sleep and rest (63.59 / 64.40 / 68.23) for all professionals; self (67.65 / 65.38) for residents and non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos), body image and appearance (73.17) for non-medical resident professionals (aperfeiçoandos); transportation (80.26) for residents, home environment for non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos) and physical environment (69.19) for non-medical resident professionals (aperfeiçoandos). The professionals presented great scores in the spirituality, religion and personal beliefs characteristic. The characteristics with lower scores were: daily life activities (67.13 / 67.30 / 76.30) and negative feelings (57.60 / 51.80 / 59.11) for all the professionals; sexual activity (66.77 / 63.10) and energy and fatigue (50.20 / 51.32) for residents and non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos); social support (67.70) and pain and discomfort (54.17) for non-medical resident professionals (aperfeiçoandos); participation in recreation/leisure opportunities (49.21) for residents and financial resources (45.55 / 50.52) for non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos and aperfeiçoandos respectively). Conclusions: The evaluation of life quality showed that the studied professionals are satisfied with their life quality; life and health; presented an adequate level of independence and good spiritual/religious structure. There is a commitment of sexual life and daily life activities, furthermore on coping with difficulties of stressful situations.