Qualidade de vida e transtorno mental comum em graduandos de ciências da saúde

Abstract

Graduates of health sciences despite the acquisition of knowledge related to health promotion and prevention are subject to the occurrence of common mental disorder impacting their quality of life. The present study aimed to analyze the influence of Common Mental Disorder and other demographic and academic variables on the Quality of Life of health science undergraduates of a public educational institution through the application of SRQ-20 and WHOQOL-bref questionnaires. The results identified a predominance of females graduating singles with a mean age of 22 years. The course with the highest prevalence of CMD was Occupational Therapy, with 31 (56%) individuals presenting the symptoms; and the Physical Education course presented the lowest proportion, 11 (26%) subjects. The Physical Education course had the highest quality of life index, with a mean of 71.17 and the lowest score was identified by the undergraduate students of the medical course with a mean of 62.08. The highest number of variables influencing the quality of life indexes occurred simultaneously for the environmental domain. The influence is positive on the QoL in the environmental domain for undergraduates who did not present symptoms of CMD (β = -0,386 and p <0,001), are male (β = -0,144 and p = 0,001), live in the city of Uberaba (β = -0,121 and p = 0,005), self-declared whites (β = 0,103 and p = 0,015) and had a higher or higher family income (p=0,135 and p = 0,001), equal to two minimum wages (β = 0,083 and p = 0,048).