Qualidade de vida geral e ansiedade de acadêmicos do curso de medicina da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

The physical and psychological conditions of medical students are crucial to academic performance. Objective: to assess the general quality of life, stroke and anxiety State in students of Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul – FAMED/UFMS. Material and methods: observational study of cross section between academics from 1st to 6th year of FAMED/UFMS in the year 2015. For data collection applied three questionnaires: a demographic characterization, the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief (WHOQOL-BREF) and diagnostic Inventory of anxiety Trait-State (IDATE). Descriptive statistics was applied for sociodemographic and characterization of the levels of the domains of the WHOQOL-BREF and IDATE, consisting of measures of central tendency and variability. Analytical statistical parametric was not used for the comparison of scores of WHOQOL-BREF domains and levels of anxiety assessed by IDATE-T (trace) and IDATE-(State). We used the Mann Whitney test, Kruskal Wallis and Friedman. Results: the sample (n = 320, 2015) featured uniformity according the year attended and the sex, with prevalence of white (70.6%) and marital status single (96.9%). Most scholars (58.7%) were from other States. About the habits of life, practice physical activity at most once a week (60.6%). Most scholars (96.6%) claimed not to smoke, and more than half of the sample reported frequent consumption of alcohol (62.5%). The choice of course is considered to be personal (82.5%), with majority interest in the realization of medical residency (94.7%). Professional expectations were good (39.6%). The WHOQOL-BREF returned self-assessment prevalent good quality of life (55.0%) and satisfaction with the own health (38.7%). The psychological domain (62.5) was lower than that of social relations (66.7) and the environment (65.5), (p = 0.007). In female minors were psychological domain scores (62.5) in respect of other areas (p = 0.004). In comparison with the male sex presented minors values in physical domains (60.7 vs. 67.9, p = 0.029) and psychological (62.5 vs. 66.7, p = 0.018). Between the years of progress (1st to 6th), there was no difference in the field environment (p = 0.023) and social relations (p = 0.003). For the 3rd year (p = 0.012), scores were lower for the psychological domain (62.5). The IDATE-E and IDATE-T showed moderate anxiety level (median 44), with a near-zero correlation between quality of life and the IDATE-T. The same occurred with IDATE-E. Conclusion: the sample presented good prospects on the profession and the quality of life of the scholars. The female sex proved more vulnerable in psychological and physical domains. Moderate anxiety has been identified, without significant influence on overall quality of life of the scholars.