Chronic health conditions related to quality of life for federal civil servants

A transversal, quantitative study, conducted at the Department of Civil Servant Assistance of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte with 215 civil servants, during the period from March to May 2011.

RESULTS:

Among the chronic health conditions studied, there was significant relationship between non-communicable chronic disease and QOL scores, correlating weakly (r <-376; p <0.008) in the other fields. It was found that the greater the number of chronic conditions, the lower the values on the QOL scale.

CONCLUSION:

The quality of life of civil servants is negatively influenced by chronic health conditions, compromising, in general, their daily work and life activities.

Quality of life; Chronic disease; Occupational health; Nursing

Domains of the SF-36	Categories of chronic health conditions
Domains of the SF-36	DCNT¹ (n=143)	TMP² (n=7)	DFCE³ (n=2)	DCNT + DFCE (n=30)	DCNT +TMP (n=29)	DCNT, TMP + DFCE (n=4)	ANOVA (p-value)
Domains	%	%	%	%	%	%	ANOVA (p-value)
Mental Health	84.7	53.7	100.0	83.6	62.3	80.0	0.001
Social Function	87.1	53.8	69.0	71.4	59.6	78.2	0.001
Emotional Aspects	86.7	19.0	100.0	82.2	40.2	33.2	0.001
Vitality	80.5	55.0	87.5	77.8	61.7	73.7	0.001
Functional aspect	75.2	77.1	100.0	60.1	64.8	75.0	0.016
Pain in the body	68.4	63.7	80.5	63.8	60.9	47.5	0.469
General Health Aspect	67.0	60.8	76.0	68.5	59.1	71.5	0.461
Physical Aspects	63.9	60.7	62.5	48.3	49.1	31.2	0.154

Domains of the SF-36	Chronic health condition categories
	DCNT¹		TMP²		DFCE³ TMP		DCNT + DFCE		DCNT + TMP		DCNT, TMP + DFCE
	R	(ρ)	r	(ρ)	r	(ρ)	R	(ρ)	r	(ρ)	r	(ρ)
Mental health	-0.248	(0.001)	0.160	(0.019)	-0.152	(0.026)	-0.019	(0.783)	0.319	(0.001)	0.008	(0.906)
Social Function	-0.355	(0.001)	0.141	(0.038)	0.024	(0.723)	0.101	(0.140)	0.293	(0.001)	0.036	(0.597)
Emotional Aspects	-0.376	(0.001)	0.284	(0.001)	-0.063	(0.356)	-0.046	(0.498)	0.378	(0.001)	0.147	(0.031)
Vitality	-0.226	(0.001)	0.068	(0.319)	-0.053	(0.436)	-0.019	(0.779)	0.307	(0.001)	0.010	(0.887)
Functional aspect	-0.180	(0.008)	-0.046	(0.506)	-0.136	(0.047)	0.183	(0.007)	0.125	(0.068)	0.001	(0.987)
Pain in the body	-0.109	(0.112)	0.018	(0.791)	-0.048	(0.486)	0.034	(0,619)	0.085	(0.214)	0.087	(0.204)
General Health Aspect	-0.074	(0.279)	0.049	(0.472)	-0.040	(0.564)	-0.036	(0.604)	0.128	(0.062)	-0.009	(0.897)
Physical Aspects	-0.173	(0.011)	-0.014	(0.837)	-0.012	(0.858)	0.117	(0.087)	0.096	(0.162)	0.091	(0.183)

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