scholarly journals The quality of life of family health professionals: a systematic review and meta-synthesis

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Rogério Camargos Pennisi ◽  
Natalia Caroline Alves ◽  
Pietra Sanitá Michelin ◽  
Lívia Medeiros-Souza ◽  
Álex Moreira Herval ◽  
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ABSTRACT Objectives: to perform a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies about the work-related quality of life of Family Health Strategy professionals. Methods: this systematic review was developed to answer the following PVO question: “Which factors (variables) are associated with the work-related quality of life (outcome) of Family Health Strategy professionals (population)?” The PubMed, Scopus, Embase, SciELO, Web of Science, LILACS, Science Direct, OpenThesis, OpenGrey, and OATD databases were selected. The meta-synthesis analyzed the main codes and secondary codes of all included studies. Results: the database search resulted in 1,744 reports; six were considered eligible for the meta-synthesis. Four factors were considered for the quality of work life: working conditions; work processes; interpersonal relationships; and personal aspects. Conclusions: although this study confirms the adequacy of aspects commonly related to the quality of work life, other factors are important in the case of FHS professionals, especially work context.

Author(s):  
Javad Yoosefi Lebni ◽  
Razie Toghroli ◽  
Jaffar Abbas ◽  
Neda Kianipour ◽  
Nazila NeJhaddadgar ◽  
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Background The quality of life as a concept beyond physical health stands one of the protuberant indexes, and various health-based studies required distinct measurements, which deemed necessary for their significant implications. The nurses fight at the front and play a leading role in providing services to patients at healthcare centers. They deserve a higher quality of life in catering to physical health services. This present study focuses on examining nurses' work-life quality standards and how demographic variables contribute to the hospital of Imam Reza in Kermanshah of Western Iran. Methods This descriptive-analytical study recruited a sample of 271 nurses affiliated with Imam Reza Hospital and Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences by incorporating the stratified random sampling in 2019. This study used a two-part questionnaire to collect data from the targeted respondents. The first part presented the participants' demographic profiles, and the second part showed the nurses' work‐related quality of life (WRQoL) on the scale developed by Van Laar et al. The study screened the data and performed analyses through the SPSS version-23. The research study conducted a descriptive analysis to measure mean and standard deviation with inferential statistics, including independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA (P < 0.05). Results The study findings specified that nurses’ average quality of the work-life was at a moderate level 3.11 ± 0.47. Besides, results indicated that 57.50% of the nurses reported high standards of quality of work-life, 36.50% showed a modest and 5.20% revealed a lower level of work-life quality. The findings indicated that the quality of work-life significantly correlated with respondent’' age, marital status, education, work experience, position, department, shifts, and employment status (p < 0.05). Conclusion The findings of this research demonstrated that the nurses’ quality of work-life was higher than the average standard. The results provide useful insight for nurses and hospital managers. The policymakers and health managers need to pay more attention to providing a better quality of work-life to the nurses.


Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Chagas Pinatto Balabem ◽  
Murilo Navarro de Oliveira ◽  
Álex Moreira Herval ◽  
Ítalo de Macedo Bernardino ◽  
Walbert de Andrade Vieira ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Feliciana Bracarense ◽  
Nara dos Santos Costa ◽  
Joyce Mara Gabriel Duarte ◽  
Maria Beatriz Guimarães Ferreira ◽  
Ana Lúcia de Assis Simões

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 475-485
Author(s):  
Fernanda de Oliveira ◽  
Sandra Poncio Feltrin ◽  
Rafael Zaneripe de Souza Nunes ◽  
Marieli Mezari Vitali ◽  
Lisiane Tuon ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
GOMATHI S ◽  
SWAPNA M

Quality of working life has been differentiated from the broader concept of quality of life. To some degree, this may be overly simplistic, as Elizur and Shye,(1990) concluded that quality of work performance is affected by quality of life as well as quality of working life. However, the specific attention to work-related aspects of quality of life is valid. Whilst quality of life has been more widely studied, quality of working life remains relatively unexplored and unexplained. A review of the literature reveals relatively little on quality of working life. Where quality of working life has been explored, writers differ in their views on its core constituents. Various authors and researchers have proposed models of quality of working life which include a wide range of factors. This paper concentrates on the role of job satisfaction in quality of work life.


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Inocenti Miasso ◽  
Paulo Celso Prado Telles Filho ◽  
Tatiana Longo Borges ◽  
Assis do Carmo Pereira Junior ◽  
Kelly Graziani Giacchero Vedana ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thatiana Lameira Maciel Amaral ◽  
Cledir de Araújo Amaral ◽  
Patrícia Rezende do Prado ◽  
Nathália Silva de Lima ◽  
Patrícia Vasconcelos Herculano ◽  
...  

Objectives: To verify the prevalence of a low quality of life and analyze the morbidities associated with such a condition among elderly persons registered with the Family Health Strategy of the municipality of Senador Guiomard. Method : A cross-sectional study was performed of elderly persons registered with the Family Health Strategy in the urban area of the municipality of Senador Guiomard in the state of Acre. A comparison between men and women regarding morbidities and quality of life was performed using Pearson's chi-squared test. The associations between the tertiles of quality of life and morbidities were estimated by odds ratio through multivariate logistic regression analysis. Results : There were differences between men and women in the reporting of hypertension (p=0.015), diabetes (p=0.033), in the psychological domain (p=0.009) and in total quality of life (<0.001). Elderly people classified in the lower tertile of the physical and social domains of quality of life were more likely to suffer from hypertension, cardiovascular disorders and anemia. Those in the lower tertile of the psychological domain were also more likely to suffer from hypertension, cardiovascular disorders and insomnia, as well as anemia. Elderly individuals in the lower overall tertile were more likely to suffer from hypertension, cardiovascular disorders, insomnia and anemia. No statistically significant associations were found for the environmental domain. Conclusion : The total quality of life and the physical, psychological and social domains of quality of life can be considered good indicators of the described morbidities among the elderly. The environmental domain, however, was not a useful indicator.


2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria de Lourdes Denardin Budó ◽  
Fernanda Carlise Mattioni ◽  
Tiago da Silva Machado ◽  
Lúcia Beatriz Ressel ◽  
Luís Felipe Dias Lopes

Author(s):  
Carlos Rodrigo Nascimento de Lira ◽  
Rita de Cássia Akutsu ◽  
Priscila Ribas de Farias Costa ◽  
Luana de Oliveira Leite ◽  
Karine Brito Beck da Silva ◽  
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This study systematically reviewed the relationship between occupational risks and quality of life (QoL) and quality of work life (QWL) in hospitals. A systematic review was performed according to the recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guide, and the protocol was submitted on the PROSPERO website (CRD 2019127865). The last search was performed in June 2021 by two independent reviewers in the main databases, a gray literature database, and a manual search (LILACS, MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Scopus, Embase, Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, Ovid). As eligibility criteria, we included observational studies, with adult hospital workers, with no restrictions on date and language, any type of instrument to assess QoL and QWL, any definition of QoL and QWL, and studies that presented the relationship between exposure and outcome. Newcastle–Ottawa was used to assess the methodological quality and RTI-Item Bank to assess the risk of bias. Given the impossibility of performing a meta-analysis, a qualitative synthesis was used to present the results. Thus, 11 studies met the criteria and were included in the review, with 6923 individuals aged 18 to 64 years. The studies were mainly carried out with health professionals (81.81%), women (63.60%), and in Asian countries (63.63%). All studies used different instruments and ways to categorize the QoL and QWL, and occupational risks. Only one study assessed occupational noise and another the ergonomic risk. All of them presented a relationship between occupational risk and quality of work life. They pointed to the need for measures to improve the lives of these professionals in the work environment. Therefore, studies show a relationship between occupational risks (noise, ergonomics, and stress) and workers’ perception of low or moderate quality of work life. However, more homogeneous studies are necessary for instruments, conceptualization, and categorization of quality of work life.


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