OBJECTIVES: To assess the quality of life of nursing assistants and licensed practical nurses from nine Intensive Care Units and to determine whether their demographic characteristics influence their quality of life. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a teaching hospital in São Paulo city, Brazil. The sample consisted of 126 nursing assistants or licensed practical nurses. Data were collected from October to November, 2005. Quality of life was measured with the WHOQOL-BREF tool. RESULTS: The average score on each domain of the WHOQOL-BREF were: Social relations (66.3), psychological (60.8), physical (53.1), and environment (49.4). Among the demographics, age was positively correlated with the physical domain of quality of life, and number of jobs was inversely correlated with the physical, psychological, and social relations domains. There was also a weak correlation between age and number of jobs. CONCLUSION: The scores on the domains of quality of life among the sample of this study were low.
Quality of life; Intensive care units; Nursing team; Questionnaries
