Quality of life among male patients of a Family Health Unit
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1983-652X.2016.2.22031Keywords:
quality of life, men’s health, primary health care.Abstract
Introduction: The growing importance of Primary Health Care (PHC) and of Health Promotion in Brazil highlights the topic of quality of life among patients of the Brazilian Health System.
Objective: To correlate the quality of life (QL) to sociodemographic variables in low-income male patients of Brazilian PHC.
Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional analytical study. Three hundred male patients from a PHC service in Vitória, ES, Brazil, participated in this research. They answered to the WHOQOL-BREF administered in individual interviews, and to a sociodemographic questionnaire. We analyzed the data with t-test, ANOVA, ANCOVA and with Pearson correlation coefficient.
Results: Patients who were working had higher scores than patients who were not working in the following QL domains: global (t=1.98; p=0.04), physical (t=4.88; p<0.001), psychological (t=2.46; p=0.01) and social (t=2.89; p=0.004). Age was negatively correlated with the following QL domains: global (r=-0.11; p<0.05), physical (r=-0.22; p<0.01), psychological (r=-0.12; p<0.05) and social (r=-0.15; p<0.01). Income was positively correlated with all QL domains: global (r=0.19; p<0.01), physical (r=0.22; p<0.01), psychological (r=0.14; p<0.05), social (r=0.16; p<0.01) and environmental (r=0.32; p<0.01). Education was positively correlated with the physical (r=0.13; p<0.05), social (r=0.15; p<0.01) and environmental (r=0.19; p<0.01) domains.
Conclusion: Among the low-income male patients of Brazilian PHC, greater levels of perceived QL were related to having a job, lower age, more education and greater income.
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