Taxi drivers' mental health status and their life quality

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作者
de Souza Junior, Edison Vitorio
Silva, Sarah Rodrigues
de Oliveira, Bruno Goncalves [1 ]
Bomfim, Eliane dos Santos [1 ]
Silva de Oliveira Boery, Rita Narriman [1 ]
Boery, Eduardo Nagib [1 ]
机构
[1] UESB, Nursing & Hlth Postgrad Program, Jequie, BA, Brazil
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Quality of life; health status; worker's health; OF-LIFE;
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10.9789/2175-5361.2019.v11i4.998-1004
中图分类号
R47 [护理学];
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1011 ;
摘要
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.
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页码:998 / 1004
页数:7
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