Abstract
Background
Life quality of workers influences on development and productivity of work and it can be influenced by several sociodemographic and labor factors.
Objective
To evaluate the associated factors with quality of life of University workers from southern Santa Catarina State.
Method
A cross-sectional study with 214 workers was carried out. WHOQOL-Bref was used to evaluate the quality of life. The quality of life domains were associated to exposure variables. The statistical analysis T-test for independent samples and analysis of variance, followed by the Bonferroni test were used.
Results
The mean of quality of life domains were: 74.64 (±13.52) for the physical domain, 71.12 (±12.85) for the psychological, 76.94 (±13.98) for social relations domain and 61.94 (±16.30) for the environment domain. Males presented higher mean for the physical, psychological and social relations domains. Workers older than 38 years of age presented higher means in the psychological domain. In the social relations domain, the highest mean was observed among individuals aged 18 to 27 years. In those individuals who slept less than 8 hours a day, the mean of the physical domain were smaller.
Conclusion
It is necessary the development of actions to prevent and promote life quality at work focusing on employees who had the lowest averages of the domains of that.
Keywords:
life quality; risk factors; employees; cross-sectional study
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