Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
This study aimed to evaluate the quality of life of Nutrition students in order to subsidize reflections on the process of training in health. This was a cross-sectional observational study conducted from August 2010 to August 2011 among forty students attending all course semesters. Data was collected using a specific questionnaire — sociodemographic characteristics — and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument-Bref. Descriptive frequency, central tendency and dispersion statistical analyses were performed, as was the comparison inferential analysis among the domains. The scores were: environment (68.17), social (66.67), physical (66.07) and psychological (63.82) relations. The sleep, energy for daily activities, concentration capacity, opportunities for leisure activities, financial resources, physical environment and negative feeling facets affected the respondents' quality oflife adversely and interfered with their academic performance. These findings corroborate other studies involving undergraduates, revealing that the quality of life of these young people require improving physical and environmental structures and pedagogical, social, and psychological support in a context of social inclusion and of cultural multidiversity that is increasingly present in Brazilian public universities.
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