Poster Presentation
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Quality of life of the worker-students enrolled in the middle level technical school for professional qualification in nursing
Ana Paula Martins Nunes, RN, Ms, School Nursing, Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericordia de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil and Arlete Silva, PhD, Post Graduate Course, University Guarulhos, Guarulhos/ São Paulo, Brazil.
| Learning Objective #1: understand the quality of life of the worker-students enrolled in the middle level technical school for professional qualification in nursing. |
| Learning Objective #2: verify the relationship between the quality of life of worker-students and the characteristics sociodemographic, of study and work. |
This study has as objectives, the evaluation of Quality of Life and the associations between Quality of Life and the characteristics sócio-demographic status, of study and work of the worker-students enrolled in the Middle Level Technical School for Professional Qualification in Nursing. The population consisted of 101 worker-students in a private technical school in the city of São Paulo/Brazil. To evaluate their Quality of Life we used the Ferrans and Powers QLI, obtained from four dominions: Health/functioning, Social/economic, Psychologic/spiritual and Family. The QLI showed reliability with an alpha value of 0.84. The majority (82.2%) of the students were females, 63.3% caucasian, 65.7% were aged between 19 and 29 years, 68.3% single; 82.8% said they slept less than 6 hours/day. About the hours dedicated to studying, 47.5% spent than 2 hours in it and 18.8% had no time to study; 58.4% of them did not keep themselves attentive in the theoretical classes, the main reason for this being tiredness (84.7%). About punctuality, both at the start and at the ending of the classes, 35.0% cannot obey the time-table, the main reason being the incompatibility between the schedules of the school and of the job; 69.0% of the students work more than 31 hours/week. The majority (93.1%) of the worker-students had a single job and 66.3% had a registered job. In the evaluation of their Quality of Life we obtained the following scores: total Quality of Life, 21.07 (SD=4.50), Health/functioning, 20.01 (SD=5.03); Socio-economic, 20.09 (SD=4.82); Psychologic/spiritual, 23.58 (SD=5.41); and Family, 22.18 (SD=6.61). We found a significative relationship between Quality of Life and the following variables: age, attention in the theoretic classes, compliance with the start/finnish hours of the classes, and the existence of registered job. The Quality of Life of the worker-students was considered to be good in all dominions of QOL.