Taxi drivers' mental health status and their life quality

Objective: The study's purpose has been to evaluate the influence of mental health conditions in the taxi drivers' life quality. Methods: It is a cross-sectional study of 133 taxi drivers associated with the Union of Autonomous in Jequie city, State of Bahia. Aiming to assess the participants' life quality the instrument WHOQOL-Bref was used, as well as, the SRQ-20 to assess their mental health status. In order to perform statistical analysis the Mann Whitney test and a 95% confidence level (p<0.05) was used. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee through the Legal Opinion No. 333,535. Results: The prevalence of mental health disorders was 25.6% and the results of the study have highlighted a significant statistical difference among all areas of quality of life. Conclusion: Individuals who had some type of common mental disorder had a poorer perception of the quality of life concept. Hence, it is concluded that mental health conditions influence the taxi drivers' life quality.