Open AccessAnalysis of the quality of life of medical students in Sobral - CE
Author(s) -
Benedita Tatiane Gomes Liberato,
Ana Beatriz Gabriel Silva,
Ana Talita Vasconcelos Arcanjo,
José Jackson do Nascimento Costa,
Peter Richard Hall,
Mikkael Duarte dos Santos
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista de medicina da ufc/revista de medicina da universidade federal do ceará
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-6595
pISSN - 0100-1302
DOI - 10.20513/2447-6595.2020v60n4p11-17
Subject(s) - enthusiasm , likert scale , quality of life (healthcare) , psychology , quality (philosophy) , medical education , scale (ratio) , medicine , social psychology , developmental psychology , geography , philosophy , epistemology , psychotherapist , cartography
Objective: The objective of the present study was to analyze the factors determining the quality of life of medical students in Sobral-CE and to compare them with the student’s academic momentum. Method: This is an epidemiological, cross-sectional, quantitative and qualitative study, and a questionnaire was used to collect data from 308 medical students. The questionnaire chosen was the WHOQOL-BREF, which is a Quality of Life Assessment instrument, which will be composed of 20 questions, the answers follow a Likert scale (from 1 to 5, the higher the score the better the quality of life). Results: The students enrolled in the third semester showed a worse quality of life evaluation in all the domains evaluated, which coincided with poorer quality of life and with their own health. The fifth semester showed a better quality of life assessment in all domains. Conclusions: the statistically significant differences found between domains are due to the fact that students, when they enter college, have an enthusiasm that is lost over the years and a desire and search for mutual knowledge that goes away with the routine of the day by day.