QUALIDADE DE VIDA E FATORES ASSOCIADOS DE ENFERMEIROS DO HOSPITAL DE CARIDADE SÃO VICENTE DE PAULO DURANTE A PANDEMIA COVID-19

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the Quality of Life (QOL) and associated sociodemographic, behavioral, health-related, and organizational factors in nurses at the São Vicente de Paulo Hospital, located in Guarapuava-PR, in the pandemic. Methods: This is a quantitative, cross-sectional descriptive study. Descriptive statistics of the variables were performed and, to identify the factors associated with quality of life, Linear Regression models were built, in uni and multivariate models, which were estimated by points and by intervals with 95% confidence intervals. In the final multivariate models, the variables that presented p-values <0.05 remained. Results: The population of the study in its socio demographic variables showed up to be similar to the other studies that describe the profile of the nurses in Brazil, being constituted mainly by women (81,03%), with age range between 20-49 years old, with predominance of individuals with age between 30-39 (41,38%). Regarding organizational variables, it was verified that the majority of the nurses were found to be under a high demand of work, with a workload equal or higher than 40 hours/weekly and working in more than one shift (58,93%). A significant percentage of individuals (55,35%) reported bad sleep or sleep disturbances in the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The Quality of Sleep had a major relevance, being related to the following domains of Quality of Life: Physical, Psychological, Environmental, Social Relationships and Overall. Other health related variables presented correlations with specific domains of QOL. In the behavioral variables during the Covid-19 pandemic, some of them had significant statistical correlations with different domains of QOL. Quality of Life at Work (QWL) and Quality of Life showed coherent correlations regarding the majority of the study variables, and were correlated between each other inside some domains, with emphasis on the association found between QWL and the Overall domain of QOL. Final considerations: The presented data reflect directly and indirectly the reality of the nurses of the study in the pandemic period, and its reflexes in QOL and QWL. The research emphasizes the need for an urgent reavaliation of the work conditions involving this professionals, aggravated by the pandemic, and translated by the attemps of implementing a new minimum wage for the category through the Law Project 2564, besides bringing to light questions regarding the effects of work overload and exhaustion over the care practice.